Originally Posted by
8420PR
I agree leisure activities are mostly back to normal, but work is one big exception that I think will take longer and never go back to the same pre-covid levels.
Google Mobility Data compares current behaviour to the baseline of Jan 3rd to Feb 6th 2020:
For UK:
https://www.gstatic.com/covid19/mobi...port_en-GB.pdf
- retail, recreation and shopping are mostly recovered.
But people going to workspaces is down 30% UK wide and
40% in London.
It is one of the things that I doubt will ever get back to pre-covid levels. Unfortunately the other thing is business travel.
agreed because many large companies are bringing in more long term flexible arrangements. my company will have a 3 day-ish "in office" week but it will vary which three days by team and individual discretion...then others like me who have taken on a permanent work from home approach and will go to the office when i feel like it. this is all to say i agree that daily commutes will never be back to the same levels again for a very very long time.