The pandemic shift to working from home has done little to close the gap between rich and poor parts of the country, a report has found.
Despite early claims that homeworking could help “level up” the UK and rebalance economic equality, the changes have not been transformative, the Resolution Foundation found.
In reality, prosperous regions have benefited the most from the shift to working from home while deprived parts of the country have suffered, the report found.
The think tank said ethnically-diverse areas around London with the highest level of deprivation, such as Newham and Haringey, experienced the weakest job growth in the country…..