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LE
I agree totally about the employment market. The tricky bit for much of the service sector is going to be surviving until they see the lie of the “ new world”the point about a back down is that the protagonists take a step back and then slowly remove themselves. Whatever Macron and VDL have hatched, they are in it. If they did win it would be Phyrric and short lived.
However this pathogen got out, it has killed the concept of trade as we know it, but then the High streets have known that for some time. As someone else has pointed out staff cuts are now on the back of Covid-which is to say the least convenient.
Public transport concepts will die a lingering death as will office occupation for the pension funds and it is no use blaming people who have put into practice what they knew for a long time- that it was a massive con.. That means in the short to medium term the world will have to come to grips with an over subscribed employment market. From massively qualified pilots to cleaners. It's going to be harder for MPs to convince the electorates. At their heart all countries work at a parochial level.
town centres with large transient commuting staff are going to be very different for a few years. less wage slaves commuting in and money being tighter. I.e. Less likely to buy the £6 coffee every day will mean a lot of the present town Center Buisness models will strain.
In 5 years when pension funds and councils have seen no rebounce we may well see widespread conversion of much of the surplus office stock to town Center residential. That will create new and different service opportunities in the town centres.