Only 13% of UK workers work from home this week

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Only 13% of UK workers work from home this week

Only 13% of UK workers are coming in on Friday, with just 1.5 days a week going into the office, according to a survey.

According to the Office for National Statistics ONS, the majority of people do not work from home.

In 2020, only 35.9% did work at home at the peak of the disease, an increase of 9.4 percentage points compared to 2019.

38% of working adults have worked from home over the past seven days, according to a separate ONS survey in spring 2022, when guidance to work from home was no longer in place in Great Britain.

The survey found that organisations with hybrid working policies - where employees are required to be in the office for a certain number of days - had higher attendance than those that did not.

The employees appeared to be going into the office less than the policy mandated.

If the employer trusts its teams to set their own policies, attendance is 41% -- almost the same as where a three-day week is imposed.

Since then, guidance and legal restrictions have been changed in different parts of the UK, but advice to work from home was lifted in January in England and Scotland. Other parts of the UK kept the guidance in place for longer, but eventually dropped it.