Covid won't be as bad as 2008 financial crash, Aukett chief predicts

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The chief executive of listed architect Aukett Swanke has said the impact of the covid-19 pandemic will not be as bad as thefinancial crash more than a decade ago.Nicholas Thompson has been in charge of the country’s only listed architect for 15 years and said: “The financial crash was prettyawful immediately. Work stopped straightaway. Here, it’s a temporary suspension of weeks, a maximum of months.”Aukett had around 200 staff in its London office going into 2008 – the year the financial crisis began – but that number has fallento around 90 employees today.“We lost a lot through the financial crash and some through different ways of working as well – better technology, IT and so on.”