Tuesday Feb 15th

Did some reading on how Covid has affected the local economy and working from home. Remote working tends to favourable affect women’s life/work balance in terms of caring responsibilities to children/parents. Many workers don’t like working from home as it feels like they never get to leave work, and they tend to work for longer periods and outside of the normal working day. About 36% of IT companies want more than three quarters of their staff back to work from the office full time, compared to 61% of companies overall.

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