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The great divide: are office workers more productive than those at home?
- Confident predictions that a permanent shift in remote work would follow the removal of lockdown restrictions have been shaken by some early preachers themselves.
- Amazon handed down an edict to corporate employees demanding they return to the office five days a week, effective from 2 January.
- Goldman Sachs, Boots and Barclays are in favor of limiting remote work, as growing number of companies push to bring their employees back to work in-person.
- Only four in 10 employers demand their staff to be physically present at their workplace five days a week.
- Flexible working arrangements is expected to be the default option for workers from day one on the job.
- Most bosses reckon a hybrid and flexible working arrangement is valuable in the right circumstances, but there are some jobs that choose in-office work requirement.
- Utilization of remote work differs across industries, with professional services and IT showing a higher utilization of remote work.
- Official figures show workers in the highest income bands, with degree-level qualifications, and in professional occupations were most likely to work from home.
- Nationwide under its former boss, Joe Garner, launched a “work from anywhere” policy in 2021 – only for his successor, Debbie Crosbie, to scrap it last year.
- More than 20% of businesses use, or intend to use, increased home working as a permanent model, a share that has been steadily rising over time.
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