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💼Businesses are greeting Boris Johnson’s winter Covid-19 plan with dismay.

❌They have warned it could create more damaging uncertainty after learning that staff could once again be told to work from home where possible.

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💻Bosses fear that a burgeoning effort to get staff back to their desks risks being derailed by the Covid winter blueprint, which will:

❌Encourage remote working
❌Impose mandatory masks
❌Insist on vaccine passports if pressure on NHS gets too much

🍦Companies have been offering incentives to get staff back into the office this month, from free ice-cream to £1,000 for new suits.

🚆📈The capital's Tube recorded its busiest morning since March 2020 last week

🗣️Claire Walker, co-executive director of the BCC, said businesses will be "frustrated by the inability of the government to give them any detail around what circumstances could lead to new restrictions"

☕️💵The return of office workers has been boosting pubs, restaurants and cafes after months of ultra-low sales

❌Emma McClarkin, who runs the British Beer & Pub Association, said she feared that working from home measures would damage the recovery of the industry if introduced again.

🏙️She says city centre sites would be hit hardest

❓Would you rather work from home or go into the office?

🔎Read the full report here to find out why lobby groups fear more restrictions will destroy confidence and harm the economy 👇

telegraph.co.uk/business/2021/…

🔎Read more on the Government's winter 'plan B' Covid plan - which was outlined in a Downing Street press briefing today - here 👇

telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…