Eric Parry warns: Working from home will hit productivity eventually

50 Fenchurch St_CREDIT DBOX, courtesy of Eric Parry Architects (2)

Architect’s accounts also reveal loss of 18 staff

Eric Parry Architects has warned that practices cannot work from home indefinitely.

The firm said its reduced workforce of 60 have swapped the London office at Banner Street, near Old Street roundabout, for their living rooms since the government put the country into lockdown more than four weeks ago.

But in a note accompanying the firm’s latest report and accounts, signed off by Parry himself on April 9, the practice said: “We have managed to maintain home working for the entire staff. A risk however remains of maintaining continued productivity in this form of working over any longer duration.”

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