UK workers at office at 1.5 days a week

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UK workers at office at 1.5 days a week

The UK workers are at an average of 1.5 days a week, with only 13% coming in on a Friday, according to a survey.

Consultancy Advanced Workplace Associates surveyed 43 offices in the UK, representing nearly 50,000 people, in June and July.

The average attendance was 29%, with a peak of 39% mid-week.

During the Pandemic, offices were shifted to home-working but many have continued with a hybrid model since then.

The research covered sectors including banking, energy, engineering, healthcare, insurance, healthcare, insurance and tech, as well as an average of 3.8 days a week in pre-Covid, UK.

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

In spring 2022, when guidance to work from home was no longer in place in Great Britain, 38% of working adults reported working from home at some point in the past seven days.

The UK was in line with other countries, according to Advanced Workplace Associates, which advises organisations such as the Cabinet Office, NatWest and Network Rail.

It also surveyed 36 offices in 12 other countries, representing more than 27,000 people.

People came in the office an average of 1.4 days a week, compared to 3.8 days a week a year ago, according to the consultancy's findings.

The average attendance was 26%, with a peak of 35% mid-week.

North America and Latin America had the lowest average attendance.

Banking had the highest average attendance of the sectors surveyed and tech had the lowest.

The survey showed that organisations with hybrid working policies that specify employees should be in the office for a certain number of days had higher attendance than those that did not.

The employees did not seem to be going into the office less than the policy mandated.

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

The UK government asked people to work from home in March 2020 if they could.

Guidance and legal restrictions have changed since then 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.