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Offices are set to be closed for months, with companies adjusted to having staff working from home during the lockdown, new research shows.<\/p>\n

According to the Institute of Directors (IoD), many employers have brought in changes which they intend to keep in place as restrictions ease.<\/p>\n

More than a third plan to step up digital training for employees in coming months, with companies adjusting to a \u201cnew normal\u201d.<\/p>\n

It is likely that any relaxing of the existing lockdown will include an instruction for as many people as possible to continue working from home.<\/p>\n

In recent weeks staff have adjusted to holding meetings online and working from their kitchen tables and sofas.<\/p>\n

In a survey of hundreds of business leaders, four out of ten said their organisation had made adjustments that they intend to keep in place after lockdown.<\/p>\n

Increased working from home and a greater focus on digital services were common actions directors expected to continue in the long term.<\/p>\n

Businesses have been innovating in response to the lockdown, with almost one in six of those polled reporting that they had launched a new product or service due to the circumstances.<\/p>\n

Edwin Morgan, director of policy at the Institute of Directors, said: \u201cThe coronavirus<\/a> crisis is throwing up colossal challenges for business, but directors are nothing if not adaptable.<\/p>\n

\u201cLockdown means few businesses can operate as they used to and, as a result, many companies are finding a way to innovate through the obstacles.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe solutions they create might just end up becoming the new normal.<\/p>\n

And he continued: \u201cThe countrys digital and management skills are under the spotlight, and despite everything, there is still appetite among businesses to help their people continue developing.\u201d<\/p>\n

The existing lockdown in the UK is in place until May 7, but the government has said it will not consider lifting restrictions until it is confident there won\u2019t be a second peak.<\/p>\n

As the UK\u2019s lockdown enters its seventh week, Boris Johnson<\/a> has promised to share a \u201croadmap\u201d for how some of the strictest measures will be gradually eased.<\/p>\n

At the Downing Street briefing on Thursday, the Prime Minister claimed Britain is past the peak of its coronavirus outbreak and that he will reveal a comprehensive plan on how the nation will get back to work and school next week.<\/p>\n

However preventing a second wave of deadly infections is vital and professor Chris Whitty, the chief medical officer, has warned that \u201cWe are nowhere near the end of this epidemic.\u201d<\/p>\n

In order to keep the \u2018R\u2019 \u2013 the number of people each Covid-19 patient infects \u2013 below one, any relaxing of restrictions will be gradual.<\/p>\n

READ MORE FROM SOURCE: https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/uk-news\/uk-offices-set-remain-closed-21961906<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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