UK government urges workers back to offices and workplaces in bid to save economy

Britain’s government will launch a media campaign this week to urge people to return to their workplaces, ramping up Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s calls to get the country’s economy back up to speed up after its hammering during the coronavirus lockdown.

Only 17% of workers in British cities had returned to their workplaces by early August, and one of the country’s business leaders said last week that big urban centres looked like ghost towns.