OT interesting side effect of covid

[Geoff Parkstone]

With city centre working likely to be stopped or curtailed, the likes of Pret (3000 staff laid off) are shrinking. Other sandwich bars, coffee shops etc and the restaurant / bar sector will follow suit causing many more city centre job losses. Its unlikely home workers will head into their local hub to buy sandwiches or coffee.

A couple of years ago Pret said that 85% of customer facing staff were EU imports, and my personal experience supports the conjecture that many staff in food n drink were non indigineous.

So in many ways Brexit and covid seem to be working in harmony as demand and supply of labour offset, and UK economy dependence on imported labour will not be so impacted by Brexit, at least in this small sector.

I wonder to what extent this will be mirrored elsewhere in the economy, where covid related redundancy is cushioned by the removal of EU labour from the workforce?