Home office benefits

sir – Julian Tope (Letters, August 13) worries that companies are passing costs to employees working at home.

Where I live, most London commuters are working from home. They are saving travel costs and more by not buying coffees and sandwiches. Many are also saving on childcare.

Such people are substantially better off by not going into the office, and do not need the reimbursement of additional costs, which employers can ill afford at this time

Ted Shorter

Hildenborough, Kent