The age of the office is over – the future lies in Britain's commuter towns | Simon Jenkins

The rise in home working has thrown city centres into crisis. If I were in the property game, I’d buy anywhere with a cathedral

Is the office dead? Not an office, which everyone needs, but “the office”, the institution, the corporate HQ, the great overhead in the sky. Just as once the farm gave way to the factory and the factory to the desk, so technology transforms the nature of work. At the turn of the 21st century the digital revolution shrank offices to tiny screens. From then on offices have...