Life Returns to London’s Finance Hub — Doused in Disinfectant
- Temperature checks are in; spontaneous coffee meetings are out
- Experts say return to workplace key to restoring City’s spark
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There are signs of life in the City of London.
Brokers and traders are popping into a newly re-opened takeaway-only Pret a Manger for coffee. Gardeners are preparing flowerbeds around the Duke of Wellington’s statue overlooking the Bank tube station in the heart of the district. Cleaning teams are rubbing down door handles and polishing floors in bank lobbies, the odor of disinfectant wafting down the street. It smells like progress.