據彭博新聞社2020年8月31日倫敦報道，英國《泰晤士報》周日報道，由于英國石油公司（BP）正在進行裁員并采用彈性工作制，BP計劃出售其位于倫敦市中心的總部。

《泰晤士報》沒有援引任何人的消息稱，BP計劃在永久離開前把位于圣詹姆斯廣場的辦公大樓從新主人手中租回最長兩年。BP在英國擁有6500名辦公人員。BP拒絕就該報道置評。

在許多員工因疫情大流行開始在家工作后，BP加入了其他雇主改變工作方式的行列。BP首席執行官伯納德?魯尼曾表示，BP將把公司辦公和家庭辦公結合起來。

這項計劃凸顯了房地產市場面臨的不確定性，這是因為疫情讓辦公室工作人員在廚房或起居室里辦公，導致倫敦金融城、金絲雀碼頭等商業中心以及倫敦其他地方的高樓被清空。

8月份，在倫敦，只有13%的人回到了他們的辦公室。《泰晤士報》援引對手機數據的分析稱，在全國63個最大的城市中心，這一數字為17%。

《泰晤士報》稱，BP在2001年以1.17億英鎊(1.56億美元)的價格買下了這棟大樓作為公司總部，這棟大樓而今售價可能超過3億英鎊。

李峻 編譯自 彭博社

原文如下：

BP Reportedly Planning to Sell London HQ

BP Plc plans to sell its headquarters in central London as it cuts jobs and adopts flexible working, The Times reported on Sunday.

The oil major, which employs 6,500 office staff in the U.K., plans to rent back the building on St. James’s Square from the new owner for as long as two years before leaving for good, the newspaper said, without citing anyone. BP declined to comment on the report.

BP joins other employers that are changing their work styles after many employees began working at home due to the coronavirus pandemic. Chief Executive Officer Bernard Looney has said the company will move to a mixture of home and office working.

The plan highlights the uncertainty the property market is facing as the coronavirus sent office workers to setups in their kitchens or living rooms, emptying towers in the City and Canary Wharf business centers and elsewhere across London.

Only 13% of people were back to their offices this month in London. Across the nation’s 63 biggest urban centers the number was 17%, the newspaper said, citing analysis of mobile phone data.

The building, which BP bought for 117 million pounds ($156 million) in 2001, could be priced at more than 300 million pounds today, the newspaper said.