Not Returning to the Office? Try a Desk at Your Local Tesco (2)

For thousands of workers, the pandemic has upended the traditional office-based nine to five. Now even supermarkets are offering space to people who want to work closer to home.

Tesco Plc, the UK’s biggest grocer, has teamed up with IWG Plc, the flexible-office company that owns the Regus and Spaces brands, to convert excess space in a supermarket into a work hub. The site, a 3,800 square-foot mezzanine floor inside a Tesco Extra store in New Malden, south London, will house 12 desks, 30 co-working spaces and a meeting room.

Even as pandemic restrictions ease and employers ...