The UK government hinted at redesigned office spaces in its much-anticipated strategy to ease the country out of lockdown, alongside suggestions for companies to put workforces on rota — but held off from providing full detail on guidance for the measures.

The changes were discussed in the government’s 60-page document, “Our Plan to Rebuild: the UK Government’s Covid-19 recovery strategy”, released on 11 May, a day after a televised message from Prime Minister Boris Johnson on plans to reopen the economy.