Employer Work-From-Home / Covid Troubles

Grumpy_chap

The guidance is evolving, but both can be consistent:
"work from home if you can" and Boris's comments "go back to work if you can" may appear initially contradictory, but do not have to be.

• Go back to work if you can and that "back to work" can be work from home if practical.

• If you cannot work from home, then please still go back to work (at the workplace).

I know where I live, there are a number of local business that have not re-opened, or not re-opened back to their normal full BC (before coronavirus) trading:

• Banks, post office etc. are only open 10 am to 2 pm and not open every day of the week.
• Some building sites remain 'suspended'
• Some coffee shops / restaurants remain take away only
• Some pubs have not re-opened at all
• Some office based staff are still not working (at the office or at home), so the business are in reduced or suspended state

So, I think the context of Boris's latest comments could well be to encourage people to start working again if they possibly can to full normal trading hours, either to open their business to whatever the "business as normal" will mean going forward, or to work to their new normal "remote working" as the new future, but not to have people not working in suspended state.