Office life is not over – but the way we work must surely change | Gaby Hinsliff
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“Don’t bother coming back to the office.” It’s the kind of message everyone dreads receiving, but for Twitter’s employees it was benign. The tech company announced this week that home-working arrangements made for the pandemic would stay for good: nobody need ever commute in again, unless they particularly wanted to. In Britain, the telecoms giant BT also declared that staff could choose whether to come back to call centres or just carry on from home.
The idea that office life is over is almost certainly overdone. Not everyone loves typing away on the.
