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'Get back to the office': Minister's rebuke to civil servants still working from home

Source: Christian Adams/ES

Civil servants still “languishing in lockdown habits” of working from home were told by a senior minister to “get back to the office”.

Cabinet Office minister John Glen stressed that working from home should be the “exception and not the rule”.

In a hard-hitting intervention, he bluntly told some civil servants in and in regions outside London that they “are still working from home too much”.

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