RBS tells 50,000 workers not to return to the office until 2021

Royal Bank of Scotland has told more than 50,000 staff they will be working from home until next year in a blow to Boris Johnson’s efforts to get employees back to the office. The NatWest owner has told the vast majority of its employees that they will continue to do their jobs remotely until at least the end of December. It had initially hoped to start bringing workers back four months earlier. Its decision will be viewed with concern in Whitehall, after the prime minister said on Friday