How I long for an office meeting, a plate of biscuits and some romance
The IndependentThe best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week - from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The government is pushing for everyone who can to now “go back to the office” and it’s causing mixed reactions in my little world. There are also people like me, and burlesque dancers, who don’t have an office to go back to, nor can we go back to the way we worked before. It’s hard to imagine how a large, open plan office can be opened for business, with people going up and down lifts together and queueing outside Pret for a sandwich, can be regarded as less dangerous than people sitting, socially distanced, in a theatre. It allows us to connect with people who aren’t family or even necessarily friends, but with whom we have to get along to make whatever it is we do in our jobs, work.
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