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Working from home to stay for civil servants

Many civil servants will continue to work from home, despite calls from ministers to return to their desks.

Alex Chisholm, chief operating officer of the civil service and permanent secretary of the Cabinet Office, said that the new-found ability of officials to vary working patterns was a “huge positive”.

He told the Commons public accounts committee that letting people work flexibly would also allow the civil service to shrink its footprint on Whitehall.

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