Work patterns we thought might fade as COVID rules eased are actually intensifying, writes Pilita Clark. Read more.
I say this semi-facetiously after months of cycling home from the office on weekday evenings through the City of London financial district and past a large number of pubs.
Office attendance drops to a puny 12 per cent globally on Fridays and 13 per cent in the U.K., data from the Advanced Workplace Associates consultancy shows.Article contentIn the weeks before the capital’s first lockdown in March 2020, about four million journeys a day were made on the Tube on both Thursdays and Fridays.
It may not be fair to say that all this adds up to the equivalent of a four-day working week. By no means everyone who downs a pint or two of beer on the way home on Thursday spends the whole of Friday doing zero work.