More Britons like to work from home

There are a large number of Britons who like to work from home, figures from the Office for National Statistics show that Jacob Rees-Mogg, the minister for Brexit opportunities and government efficiency, may be anxious to get back into office, but a large number of Britons like to work from home, according to the Office for National Statistics. They show that almost a quarter of employees now describe themselves as hybrid workers working partly in the office and partly at home. The ONS says :

According to the Opinions and Lifestyle Survey, the majority of people who took up homeworking because of the coronaviruses Covid 19 plan to work from home and in the workplace hybrid work in the future were asked about their plans for the future in February 2022, after government guidance to work from home was lifted in England and Scotland. More than 8 in 10 workers who had to work from home during the coronaviruses epidemic said they planned to hybrid work. The proportion of workers who are hybrid working has risen from 13% in early February 2022 to 24% in May 2022. The percentage of people who are only working from home has fallen from 22% to 14% in the same period.

The proportion of people who had to work from home during lock-in has gone up, as well as the proportion who is planning to spend more time working from home in the future, according to the report.

In February 2022, 84% of workers who were to work from home because of the coronaviruses had said they planned to carry out a mix of work at home and in their place of work in the future. Since April 2021, the proportion of workers who planned to work at all has not changed much since the hybrid working pattern has shifted towards spending most of their working hours at home. In February 2022, the most common hybrid working pattern that workers planned to use was mostly from home, and sometimes from their usual place of work. 42% reported this, an increase from 30% in April 2021. The proportion who planned to split their time equally between work and home, or work mostly from their place of work and occasionally from home, has fallen. The proportion of people who planned to return to their place of work permanently fell from 11% in April 2021 to 8% in February 2022.

The ONS says that hybrid working is particularly popular with higher earners. More than two-thirds of people with more than 40,000 a year work at home or partially 23% or 38%.

The Tory campaign against working from home is more peculiar. Boris Johnson told the Daily Mail recently that people who work from home are more likely to spend too much time raiding the fridge, and that is something that is not just Rees-Mogg. He said something.

My experience of working from home is that you spend a lot of time making another cup of coffee and then walking very slowly to the fridge, hacking off a piece of cheese, then walking very slowly back to your laptop, and then forgetting what it was that you were doing.

There was a time when people earning more than 40,000 a year would have been seen as core Tory voters to be courted by the party, not insulted as workshy.