Cabinet minister says government should not tell firms where employees should be working
Flexible working, enabling people to carry on doing their jobs partly from home, will outlast the pandemic and is “here to stay”, a UK cabinet minister has said.
The business secretary, Kwasi Kwarteng, said government should not be telling firms where their employees should be working because they were best placed to decide for themselves. But he also said that he would be “encouraging” his own civil servants at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy to return to the office.
