Huge backlash | Bosses U-turn on plan to ignore Gov 'work from home' advice

Publishing house Future, which owns the likes of Marie Claire, Tech Radar and Metal Hammer, this week confirmed that it was reversing controversial plans to defy the Government’s work from home guidance and force all staff back into its offices.

“There is a cost to our business of prolonged working from home,” Future’s Chief People Officer, Hazel Boyle, wrote in an internal email to staff on Thursday, just one day after Prime Minister Johnson’s confirmation of the revised guidance.

“So, while the Government is recommending [working from home] ‘where you can’, we believe that full-time working from home is not something ‘we can’ do,” she said, as reported by The Guardian.

Boyle went on to note that, “business performance, creativity and teamwork,” were at stake if workers did not continue to come in at least two days out of the week, despite beating its own forecasts and increasing revenues by almost a quarter in the last year.