{"id":1073625,"date":"2026-07-07T07:19:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T07:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1073625\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T07:19:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T07:19:28","slug":"how-heatwaves-are-burning-a-hole-in-londons-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1073625\/","title":{"rendered":"How heatwaves are burning a hole in London\u2019s economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Workers\u2019 rights campaigners said that more than 1,000 people had signed up to take part in a \u201cheat strike\u201d as employees struggled to cope in the heatwaves, backed by groups including the Bakers, Food and Allied Workers Union and the Trades Union Congress. Unite, which represents tens of thousands of construction workers, is calling for a maximum working temperature of 27C for sweaty manual jobs such as building work. Bricklayers downed tools, bakers including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/news\/london\/greggs-shut-heatwave-bakery-chain-weather-hot-b1287430.html\" title=\"Greggs shuts London shops as capital bakes in 37C heatwave\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">branches of Greggs shut shops<\/a>, and in the City, even corporations with strict return-to-office mandates temporarily dropped them to allow working from home. JP Morgan, ING, Deutsche Bank, Nomura plus insurers M&amp;G and Hiscox all allowed empty office desks last month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Workers\u2019 rights campaigners said that more than 1,000 people had signed up to take part in a \u201cheat&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1073626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3090],"tags":[51,1700,2461,237386,3393,16,15],"class_list":["post-1073625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-heatwave","tag-london-economy","tag-productivity","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116877483463789923","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1073625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1073626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1073625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1073625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1073625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}