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'Whether footfall returns to pre-pandemic levels will depend on a number of factors, not least office workers returning in significant numbers, or if "blended" working practices see many of them continue to work part of the time from home.' Expand

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'Whether footfall returns to pre-pandemic levels will depend on a number of factors, not least office workers returning in significant numbers, or if "blended" working practices see many of them continue to work part of the time from home.'

'Whether footfall returns to pre-pandemic levels will depend on a number of factors, not least office workers returning in significant numbers, or if "blended" working practices see many of them continue to work part of the time from home.'

'Whether footfall returns to pre-pandemic levels will depend on a number of factors, not least office workers returning in significant numbers, or if "blended" working practices see many of them continue to work part of the time from home.'

The reopening of non-essential retail on April 30 will be a litmus test for the Executive's Covid-19 strategy. High street shops that will, by that stage, have been shuttered for more than four months face a harsh new economic reality.

Whether footfall returns to pre-pandemic levels will depend on a number of factors, not least office workers returning in significant numbers, or if "blended" working practices see many of them continue to work part of the time from home.

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