I had to wait til Mid-day to check if the story was true. Appropriately, it was April 1st 2021 when the "i" Newspaper reported that Ministers are looking to "start bringing some civil servants back into the workplace under a phased return to the office from 12 April." We were assured this will only apply to "those whose roles are unsuited to working from home." As I said when talking about the early days of the lockdown  here   the definition of not being able to do your job remotely was always a bit ambiguous. It turned out that the technology allowed more people to work from home than we'd previously been led to believe. But some sections of HMRC doubted how effective that work from home was. Perhaps that was what the  Prime Minister was thinking of when he said "people have had quite a few days off" and should make a stab at going back to the office. "Fair play, we've given you that time off so you didn't spread Covid, but l...