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visit Air France.co. UK. Hello and welcome to the bunker. You will need to know on news and politics five days a week. I'm Hannah Fern.

Are you listening to this on your commute? I suspect you might be. But when this

podcast first launched about four years ago, it was deep in the middle of the pandemic era

and chances where you'd be catching up

on the latest episode on your morning jog

or walking the dog before you sat down

to work at your own kitchen table.

And whether you liked that or not, we all thought it was the dawn of a new era of

flexible working but not so although the majority of businesses are still offering

hybrid work that number is reducing every week and the pressure to return to the office is intensifying.

Already a third of British companies expect their staff in the office or on site every single day.

And that number is now expected to rise during 2025. So although many

workers are still hybrid, according to the CIPD a quarter of them are only

doing so informally and they have no policy or contract securing that right to work flexibly.

Despite everything we've all been through it seems Britain is trapped in a culture of presenteeism.

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