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Sounds great, but I wonder if the 'bosses' will decide they don't in fact need all this staff, after all?
We were heading that way anyway. We currently have a staff of 44 (I think - that's approximate), including some who are part-time and a significant percentage who are agency temps. The office has recently undergone a major refurbishment, during which the number of standard workstations was reduced from around 40 to 24. The work was completed the week before the lockdown began, which is quite funny in retrospect - we now have a brand new office space with hardly anyone in it.

Under the proposed, pre-coronavirus arrangements, nobody was supposed to have a permanent desk of their own, a percentage of people would be encouraged to work at home and the staff levels would be reduced in line with the requirements of new IT systems which were being introduced just as things were locking down.

A few of the agency temps are being let go at the end of this month (three I think) and a few more will follow in due course, but that's not a surprise development - it was planned all along. What's changed is that all of the staff have been using the new systems at home rather than a percentage of them on a rota basis, and it's been happening a lot sooner than was anticipated.