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are people who work from home
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responsible for London hollowing out
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that certainly seems to be the opinion
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of Mayor sadik Khan who has said at an
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event that the capital was at risk of
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losing what made it special if people
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kept working from home speaking to
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guests of consultancy firm project
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leaders KH voiced fears that young white
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color workers might struggle to form
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connections with colleagues or failed to
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learn job critical skills if they spent
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too much time working from home he also
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expressed his displeasure at some firms
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opting to cut their overheads by
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reducing their office space telling
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bosses they needed to think very
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carefully before signing leases for
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smaller workplaces the comments have
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caused uproar in some quarters with
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conservative London politicians accusing
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KH of hypocrisy his own team relocated
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City Hall from its original headquarters
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near Tower Bridge to a smaller premise
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in the Royal docks that cannot
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accommodate all staff at the same time
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Garrett the most senior Tory in City
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Hall said if he's moaning about
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businesses in London not getting people
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back in the office maybe he should
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explain why he's sticking with his plan
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of having most of his own City Hall
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staff working from home most of the time
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khah also made his comments at a time
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when several UK Blue Chips themselves
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reassess their hybrid working policies
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as the pandemic gets further into the
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rearview mirror at the start of this
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year mark Reed the boss of advertis in
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114,000 employees that they would need
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to be back in the office at least four
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times a week in a move that evoked a
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harsh backlash from staff over 20,000
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people signed an open petition set up by
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a group of concerned wpp employees
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calling on Reeds to reinstate the ogal
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and group M owners previous policy which
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was more flexible firms like Amazon and
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the US Investment Banking bouth JP Oran
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have also faced resistance from staff as
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they looked to Corral them back in with
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JP boss Jamie diam recorded launching a
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blistering dressing down at employees
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who preferred not to come in to the
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office here at City am. we'd like to
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know do you think office-based workers
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should be able to work from home when
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they like and is sadique khah WR when he
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says it's ruining Central London let us
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know your thoughts in the comments
