Twenty years ago Forest moved from a leased office in London to a substantially cheaper serviced office in Cambridge.
In January, as I explained here, the site previously known as Castle Park was rebranded as Journey Campus (!) and the building previously known as Sheraton House was renamed The Quad.
When we moved to Castle Park in February 2004 I’m pretty sure that smoking was already prohibited in Sheraton House. Instead, staff would go outside to smoke.
Later, smoking directly outside the building was banned too and smokers were given a small smoking area 20-30 yards away.
Today I received this message:
Journey Campus is now a NON-SMOKING SITE. Please be aware that smoking is now not permitted anywhere on the Campus.
If staff members do wish to smoke, they will need to leave site. To confirm, this also includes vaping.
I’m not sure that was in the terms and conditions I signed last year!