British workers slow to return to the office

The coronavirus pandemic has left areas such as the City of London looking like ghost town. STEPHEN CHUNG/ALAMY. British workers are proving much more reluctant to return to the office than their European counterparts, according to research published today. Only a third of Britons are back at their desks compared with three quarters of Germans, Italians and Spanish. France has the best return rate of the major economies with 83 per cent of office staff now back, the study by Morgan Stanley found.