Working from home can inhibit the ability of staff to forge new relationships and starve them of creativity – and the costs of this will grow over time, the chief economist of the Bank of England said.

Considering the impact the pandemic has had on the way people work in the UK, Andy Haldane said this was potentially the “largest shift in working practices… in modern times” in a speech released by the central bank on 26 October, which was given on 14 October.