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By Lawrence White
LONDON, Sept 22 (Reuters) - Up to 1,000 Barclays
staff who had returned to office-based working in recent weeks
will revert to working from home following British government
guidance on Tuesday, a spokesman for the bank told Reuters.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson told people to work
from home where possible and ordered bars and restaurants to
close early to tackle a fast-spreading second wave of
COVID-19.
The latest advice comes just weeks after Johnson urged
people to return to their workplaces to try to limit the
economic damage to nearly-abandoned city centres.
Around 22,000 Barclays staff have remained working in its
offices worldwide throughout the pandemic, as designated key
workers needed to keep the financial system ticking over.
Of the around 1,000 more who had begun to return to work
worldwide, hundreds based in Britain will resume working from
home, the spokesman said, with others potentially following suit
if local advice changes in other countries.
Banks, including Barclays, had begun to return more staff to
office-based working, mainly in Britain where the government had
earlier encouraged people to resume their daily commutes.
More lenders are also expected to tell all but essential
staff to work from home, a source at another big British bank
said on Tuesday, asking not to be named.
Some banks, including NatWest Group, have told staff
they can work from home until next year.
(Reporting By Lawrence White; Editing by Sinead Cruise and
Barbara Lewis)
