New research from King’s College London about working life in the UK has found that less than half the people surveyed would comply with a full time return-to-office mandate, with almost 10% stating that this would compel them to leave their job. Working patterns borne of necessity during the Covid pandemic are, it seems, very hard to shift. As companies across the UK roll out return-to-office mandates, every week seems to bring new edicts from the UK’s big employers desperat

Stuart Rose, retail leviathan and former head of Asda, M&S and Ocado, is the latest big beast of employment to speak out against working...