In Portugal, noise ban lifts remote workers' hopes for peace at last


  • World
  • Monday, 15 Feb 2021

Giuliana Miranda poses beside the construction site in front of her apartment building during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in Lisbon, Portugal, February 12, 2021. REUTERS/Pedro Nunes

LISBON (Reuters) - The construction site outside Brazilian journalist Giuliana Miranda's suburban Lisbon apartment didn't bother her much - until remote working kicked in and the drilling noise drowned out her interviewees on Zoom. Soon, she moved house.

But luck was against her. Just before working from home became mandatory again last month, two of her eight neighbours in the new building began renovating their apartments. Two more have started since.

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