So England is re-opening

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Very little, but the changes I've alluded to are noticeable. In my experience, a lot of the people who have been working at home during the pandemic are likely to continue to do that for some time, if not permanently then a lot more often. Most of the shops reopened in Cardiff on Monday but they were very quiet. Public transport is still very quiet. The traffic on the roads has increased but it's still quiet in normal terms. People have been getting into the habit of socialising in their gardens more often than before and I think that will continue as long as the weather holds.

Things will undoubtedly move back towards normality, but as I say I think it's going to be a gradual process.

You raise a good point here, in that even if things are completely relaxed there will from now on be an element of social distancing regardless because the last 3 months have changed working patterns so a lot more people will be working from home from now on, possibly permanently. That's a lot of potential situations for spreading the virus that will have disappeared

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You raise a good point here, in that even if things are completely relaxed there will from now on be an element of social distancing regardless because the last 3 months have changed working patterns so a lot more people will be working from home from now on, possibly permanently. That's a lot of potential situations for spreading the virus that will have disappeared

About three weeks ago, my bosses asked me and my mate (who have been in the office throughout the pandemic) to do some social distancing work with our desks and the IT equipment to enable a few more people to come back in due course. Having seen the floor plans and photos of the new set-up, they said they were very pleased with the job we'd done. We got loads of plaudits for it. A few days later, my most senior boss let slip during a one-to-one discussion that she doesn't expect any more than a handful of staff to come back into the office before Christmas at the earliest as things have been working well under the current arrangements and productivity has actually increased in some areas.

For context, we have a staff of around 40. The most people we've had in the office at any one time during the lockdown is six, and even then a couple of those only called in for an hour or two to carry out specific tasks they couldn't do at home.

I'm sure there are lots of offices like ours. Indeed, the others on our site haven't reopened anywhere near fully. This has the knock-on effect of fewer people on the roads, less people on public transport, less people in the shops (we're a short walk from the city centre), etc.

I'm loving the new situation. It's often just me and my mate in the office, so there's nobody there for me to upset.

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About three weeks ago, my bosses asked me and my mate (who have been in the office throughout the pandemic) to do some social distancing work with our desks and the IT equipment to enable a few more people to come back in due course. Having seen the floor plans and photos of the new set-up, they said they were very pleased with the job we'd done. We got loads of plaudits for it. A few days later, my most senior boss let slip during a one-to-one discussion that she doesn't expect any more than a handful of staff to come back into the office before Christmas at the earliest as things have been working well under the current arrangements and productivity has actually increased in some areas.

For context, we have a staff of around 40. The most people we've had in the office at any one time during the lockdown is six, and even then a couple of those only called in for an hour or two to carry out specific tasks they couldn't do at home.

I'm sure there are lots of offices like ours. Indeed, the others on our site haven't reopened anywhere near fully. This has the knock-on effect of fewer people on the roads, less people on public transport, less people in the shops (we're a short walk from the city centre), etc.

I'm loving the new situation. It's often just me and my mate in the office, so there's nobody there for me to upset.

Sounds lovely

I'm due to be back at my normal job in September (touch wood)

The production office upstairs usually has 40+ people in it, it's been decided that that can now only be 6 due to social distancing. The majority of people will continue to work from home, probably staggered I'd have thought