Ignore the warnings about ‘ghost towns’ – homeworking is here to stay

Cutting down on unnecessary travel makes sense while coronavirus is still causing problems, writes James Moore

CBI director general Carolyn Fairbairn wants workers to head back to their offices (AFP)

Ghost town Britain HAS to get back to work.”

So said Carolyn Fairbairn, the director general of the CBI, writing in the Daily Mail.

The boss of Britain’s leading business group urged the government to build “the right environment to get people back into offices and workplaces”. This, she said, was every bit as important as getting children back to school, something ministers are gingerly going to be doing over the next week or two.