Chancellor Rishi Sunak is to present a Budget promising one\nof the biggest investments in Infrastructure to its highest levels in decades. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The chancellor is quoted as saying, \u2018”We have listened\nand will now deliver on our promise to level up the UK, ensuring everyone has\nthe same chances and opportunities in life, wherever they live.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“By investing historic amounts in British innovation and\nworld-class infrastructure, we will rebalance opportunities and lay the\nfoundations for a decade of growth for everybody.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n
So with increased investment in capital projects, how does\nthis affect the growing legions of remote workers who rely on the said\ninfrastructure, to go about working in the UK\u2019s towns and cities?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To put a figure on it, the Government is promising a spend of\nover \u00a3600bn over the five year parliament, according to the UK treasury.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Although this may sound significant, for many remote workers,\nstruggling with the daily grind of motorway queues, train delays or cancellations\nand increasingly difficult journeys to and from their places of work, they\ncan\u2019t be blamed for viewing the news with some scepticism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Add the additional complexities brought about by the current\noutbreak of Coronavirus, it\u2019s no wonder that for many commuters and remote\nteams (as well as their employers) they are looking for new solution to\ncircumnavigate these issues the 2020 Budget is attempting to solve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One of the increasing trends amongst UK businesses is that of\nallowing their employees to work from home for either the whole, or part of\ntheir working week. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Whilst this can alleviate the strain of an overcrowded and\ninefficient capital infrastructure, it is not always the perfect solution, as\nsome jobs just need a physical on-site presence and not all domestic\nenvironments are suitable or conducive to effective working. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The UK Budget, with its increased commitment to both physical\ninfrastructure as well as both faster internet connectivity, coverage and\nreliability, all sounds good, but the fact is that any rollout of this scale\nwill take months, if not years to come to any fruition, with many workers\nalready very disillusioned with the status quo and the prospect of any real\nimprovement as travel only seems to be worse across the UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One of the approaches, with perhaps most potential for\nallowing workers to increase their efficiency and productivity is the growing\ntrend of utilising coworking spaces<\/a>, closer to\nwhere workers live.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Coworking has the benefit of allowing remote workers to cut\ndown on their daily commuting distance, yet for them to still access\nbusiness-grade work premises with reliable high speed WiFi, that allows easier\ndaily access and reduces the stress of long commutes into city centres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n One of the innovators in the virtual office space, LowCost LetterBox<\/a> has\nanticipated this trend amongst workers and is growing its provision into both\ncity centres and outlying regions to satisfy the growing demand for these\nshared workspace facilities, with its sister brand, Bludesks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Chelliah Nakeeran, founder of LowCost LetterBox and Bludesks says,\n\u2018Although the Budget announcement of increased UK investment in infrastructure,\nin terms of roads, rail and motorways is welcomed, we know that for many\nbusinesses and their remote teams, there is an acute dissatisfaction and\nhardship that is very much here and now. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Coworking spaces<\/a> allow for\neasier access, closer to home, so cutting down on necessary travel and also the\nburden of traffic on the environment. This allows for businesses and their\nstaff to plan ahead, carrying out their tasks in purpose-built, fully equipped office spaces<\/a> that can be\nhired as and when needed, on a low cost Pay-As-You-Go basis.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n For remote workers in the UK, it may come as little comfort\nthat the current hardships on the roads are at least being recognised by the\nchancellor, with the government also set to pledge \u00a32.5bn to fixing potholes in\nEngland as part of the Budget.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The question will be for many though, how long will all this\ntake and will it really come to be realised, or is it just another political\npromise to grab the headlines on Budget day?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Come Thursday morning, the day after the Budget, we can\nexpect that everything will pretty much look the same and so the upward trend\nin demand for local coworking spaces by providers like Bludesks is only set to\nincrease as a viable answer to commuting misery. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Chancellor Rishi Sunak is to present a Budget promising one of the biggest investments in Infrastructure to its highest levels in decades. The chancellor is quoted as saying, \u2018”We have listened and will now deliver on our promise to level up...","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lowcostletterbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lowcostletterbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lowcostletterbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lowcostletterbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lowcostletterbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=762"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lowcostletterbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":990,"href":"https:\/\/www.lowcostletterbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions\/990"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lowcostletterbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lowcostletterbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lowcostletterbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lowcostletterbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}