Alex Newlove spoke to Vermeer Partners chief executive Simon Melling about growing a new business under lockdown, the challenge of diverse recruitment, and whether working from home is all it’s cracked up to be.

Vermeer Partners chief executive Simon Melling isn’t fully sold on the oft-recited vision of the future where we all swan into our offices a couple of days a week.

“I do think the pendulum is ebbing away [from home working],” he says.

“My answer to this has slightly changed this lockdown compared to the first, at which point I would’ve said inevitably, it is useful to have more fle...