Last week's poll: do you expect a return to business as usual?

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Do you work in the UK engineering or manufacturing sectors? If so, when - if at all - do you expect a return to "business as usual" once Covid-19 lockdown restrictions are lifted?

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For 43 per cent of respondents to last week’s poll, it will be at least a year (12-18 months) before their business returns to pre-Covid levels. A more optimistic picture emerges for 36 per cent of respondents who believe 3-6 months is a realistic time frame.

Worryingly, 13 per cent don’t expect a return to business as usual. Of the remaining eight per cent, five per cent see a swift return to normality (within the next month) and three per cent have been unaffected by the Covid-19 pandemic.

In the comments that followed, Ekij said: “As a manufacturer of “critical importance” we’re still up and running. However with some changes. Most of the engineers are working from home. The shop floor are trying to maintain 2m social distancing. Orders are all over the place and the supply chain is “flaky” to say the least.”

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