Why is everyone rushing back to work this morning?

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It's being reported London buses are rammed when they've been relatively quiet until now.
Why have people rushed back yo work today regardless of the guidelines?

Because Boris told people to go back to work if they couldn't work from home.

The week starts on Monday. Not Wednesday.

Weeks start on a Sunday actually.

Media has alot to answer for taking his statement and making crap up. He said people should go to work, never that it was from today.

Sorry, pinkyyy I'm confused now - at first you were saying that essentially, the country is full of idle layabouts who 'want to stay at home and be paid 80% for doing nothing'; then you claimed that in fact, we're overrun by selfish people who insist on getting on crowded buses when they could perfectly easily stay at home; then you reckoned that everyone has a choice about whether to work or not... and now you're angry about people "ignoring" instructions, going to work and putting us all back into lockdown...

@Pinkyyy, I was about to post similar to the above post - can you clarify please?

What's happening in London doesn't apply to me, I'm in a village in the middle of nowhere, shielding and with a DH working from home. Lucky us. But I used to work in London and had the shittiest of shitty bosses who would have had no issue in getting rid of staff who didn't do exactly as they were told i.e we would have been expected to be there this morning at the normal time, no excuses. People have bills to pay and families to feed and some will be feeling pretty desperate right now.

I don't for one minute think that London should be the benchmark to what happens in the rest of the country, it makes sense to me that areas should 're-open' when it is safe for that particular place to do so, but It really bothers me that so many posters who are in a really fortunate position (I know I am) just cannot, or will not see that this is all so much more difficult for some people than it is for others. 'We're all in it together' 'Everyone is in the same boat'. No we're not and no they're not.

It was obvious that the workplace restrictions would be eased at some point. Have posters really not given any thought to their own commute/workplace etc in anticipation of this?

Or did they just think they would be held by the hand?

Monday is the first day of the week according to the international standard ISO 8601.

Perhaps the UK doesn't follow the international standards?
But in any case, even in the UK - Monday is the start of the working week.

@Bluntness100 so your work is trying to apply social distancing & facilitate wfh & providing PPE. Do you need to travel by public transport?

It’s not about my company. People need to understand the risks. So for workers who do understand the risks but can't do the above should get a grip?

Media has alot to answer for taking his statement and making crap up.

It's what they've done throughout. Laura Kuennsberg and Robert Peston have been really appalling in not actually listening/reading to what's been said/what's been written by the govt and making things up. They're clearly working to their own agendas and spinning to serve their own purposes.

"Avoid public transport where possible" is a daft and unrealistic message in London.

Boris was talking to the whole country, not just London. Most workers live and work outside London!

I'm rather glad they didn't announce it until yesterday, if they'd announced it on Thursday or Friday I'd have had to sit through ghastly management meetings over the weekend. This way, we were able to have an objective meeting today for an implementation meeting tomorrow to action on Wednesday.

My employer has been fantastic with everyone splitting their work into research that requires physical presence and things that can be done from home before assigning the former to single individuals with no additional risks like me for the former and parents/those at risk for the latter. Everyone's a little eager to get back to their normal jobs but we can now move into a transition period where it's more fluid. I'm looking forward to not having to run 3-5 experiments at the same time as well as being able to actually analyse the results myself.

The MPs should be back at Westminster too.

Fair point to those saying I'm a bit all over the place with my posts, I suppose that's how everyone is at the moment, nobody knows anything for sure.

I do think there are many people who were nice and comfy at home on 80% pay and are angry at being asked to work for their money again. Equally I think there are those who have jumped on this as a chance to get back to work, throwing all social distancing measures out of the window.

The MPs should be back at Westminster too.

That would be breaking their own guidelines.

It’s probably bollocks. This is the press. They love to pretend London transport is rammed during the virus.

These are not remotely packed Tubes

Even I’d get on these and that’s saying something!

uk.news.yahoo.com/pack-tube-road-lockdown-ease-094840649.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=tw

throwing all social distancing measures out of the window

We're closing off hallways and building extra desks to turn parts of the building into additional office space so that people can space themselves out more. The IT people have done a tremendous job segmenting the network so that communal technologies like printers have limited pools of people who can use them as well as a wait period between prints so multiple people don't linger near them together (there's a pop up on your computer that lets you know when it's your turn).

@LilacTree1 I thought that when I saw the photos. If that's rush hour in London today those tubes are practically empty compared to pre Covid-19!

The MPs should be back at Westminster too.

Why? They can do their job from home. Everyone who can work from home should still be doing so.

Work from today, garden centres from wednesday

The garden centre thing isn’t part of the change? Or is it in this 50 pp document?

A lot of you want a nanny state, thankfully we haven't got one. The Boris bashing is so pathetic, and you should know by now that the advice given by Ministers comes from the experts.

If you are an adult with half a brain cell and planning to return to work, surely you would consider ways to do so as safely as possible? That may mean wearing a facemask and gloves and washing hands etc. You could also maybe ask your employers if you can change your working hours during this period, ie working 7 - 4 or 11 - 7 which means transport won't be crammed. Talk to your employers about what they are doing to ensure some form of social distancing in your workplace.

Don't just sit like a blob waiting for someone to tell you what to do, take your own initiative.

AFAIK Garden centres weren't mentioned yesterday, although the Welsh have said they can reopen from Weds

Maybe they've decided it's time for the second peak. Get that herd immunity up

greathat That's my reading of all this. That or incompetence.

Why can't they get BJ to do a little speech and then get someone who does do detail to tell us what it all actually means. ON THE SAME DAY.

RainMustFall, the flaw in this thinking is that any of this is about protecting "us" as individuals. It's not, it's about reducing overall spread. Wearing a mask may well reduce spread but it protects those around you more than it protects you.

rmt are saying they want people to wear faced masks and wont put on more transport-its going to be a disaster