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Back to the workplace after Covid-19: are you fearful or jumping for joy?

Two workers, an epidemiologist and a psychologist explore the highs and lows of returning to the office post-lockdown Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverage
The pandemic has hit many people hard and heading back in to work involves a huge mental shift, warn experts. Photograph: Daniel Sorabji/AFP via Getty Images

The psychologist: John Amaechi

Office life may never return to how it once was says organisational psychologist John Amaechi – and nor should it. “We can’t ask employees if they are ready to return to the office when employers aren’t ready, and they are not if they have not adjusted to the cultural shift we have witnessed.”

Installing hand sanitiser and temperature checks appear to be the least complicated aspect of preparing offices for post-lockdown, said Amaechi, who works with dozens of FTSE 100 companies on how best to organise and operate their workplace culture.

One of his clients recently noted that at least 200 of its would never

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