Not everyone chose to do that. Some employers relocated their offices. Or closed / downsized some locations and asked people to be based elsewhere, further away (or lose their jobs)
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For those Iām not getting a vaccine passport to go on holiday types.
To fly INTO UK (ie back from holiday)
You now need a -ve PCR test in your resort 72 hours before you fly they arenāt on NHS, cost varies by country but about Ā£50.
Then you need to have the UK Test Pack in your possession at immigration on arrival in UK cost Ā£230 per person.
So Ā£280 per trip home from a weekend break plus isolation or quarantine hotel.
Or have a vaccine passport.
Note you can opt not to have one butā¦
And that does not include the need for a foreign language PCR Certificate to book any trips, check in to hotel go in a bar etc while abroad
I think youāre preaching to the converted on here, Phil. Itās only @pap whoās refusing it, and heās probably not allowed to leave the country anyway 
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I had my first jab eight days ago, thank you very much.
Very efficient. Pulled back the curtain to see Tyson Fury. He gave me a jab and a free uppercut.
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I thought of a joke for sicki along those lines, canāt recall if I ever actually posted it. Something like āShipman would have made a terrific boxer. Lethal jab, and 250 straight knockouts.ā
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Heās overrated. Only fought has beens.
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Iām going to check whether I did put it on there. If I didnāt, I shall steal that and incorporate it into the gag 
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Guys. Weāve had too many days off. Naughty us.
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Obviously landlords are starring to get worried about companies not needing offices any moreā¦
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Not sure the right way to go is to give everybody the right to work from home - some companies will be flexible, some will choose to be office based, others will be 100% WFH - let the businesses decide what their optimum business model is and then they have to attract staff to work there
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Rather depends on whether youāve working from a comfortable chair and desk in your home office or from a laptop in your bedroom which is the only private space in the house you share with 4 others.
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ā¦ above a kebab shop on a busy bus route
Under the airport flightpath
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ā¦in Portsmouth.
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Thats not a flight path it should be a bomb run
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The market will sort it out.
Two similar companies, Company A and Company B, with similar income and pre-COVID, similar outgoings.
Company A decides everyone has to be in the office because itās the only way.
Company B decides on WFH for a percentage of the time, using smaller premises for things that really need it, if they need it at all.
Even if Company A owns its premises outright, which it probably doesnāt, it still canāt offer the same terms and life benefits as Company B, which is demanding neither commute and in many cases, set hours.
Over time, Company B pays less in overheads, can attract more staff and offer lower prices.
The market will sort it out. @scotty was right. Iām a terrible fucking socialist!
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Lot of politics being played here. Classic British foreign and domestic policy, which will mean itāll probably work. Divide and rule, babies. Looks like weāre splitting the ROI from the herd.
Apologies for the Jeff Taylor. I say again, I donāt know if heās real or is simply a deep cover character for John Thompson.
Overall,I think the office just about beats working at home for me. However, my office if just across the road so was able to head home for lunch etc and not have a huge commute. For my partner is loves not having the commute. Itās been a revelation working at home for him as he never did it until just over a year ago. He hopes to go back in 2 days a week, 3 max.
After last Friday I feel I need to be in the office with a manager and the duty team who take the work from us when I am the one person taking all the calls. Scrabbling about online trying to see who is about to help wasnāt ideal. One worker cannot take calls as her kids are about. Thatās a large part of our job so I think that isnāt something that can continue.
So I will likely head back for first time since mid December on Thursday. Initially one day. I think they want us in 4 days a week in the future. Whether that will change as they do sell off more offices. Thyāre just about to spend some money on building a new smaller office for people to go to when there is town hall they can go to doesnāt make much sense.
sigh
https://notesfrompoland.com/2021/03/29/poland-toughens-quarantine-rules-for-international-arrivals/
Looks like we have taken a pre emotive move regarding Novavax - it is made in the UK and was due to be full and finished in Germany
Itās a real sign of distrust of the EU that the govt have just contracted GSK to fill and finish it in the UK
Subject to approval it will be available in May