Working from home wasn’t especially common in the UK before Covid-19. According to the Office for National Statistics, around 5% of employees worked mainly from home in 2019. But during the Covid-19 pandemic, it became risky to undertake a crowded commute, or to spend time in a communal office space, adding to the overall costs of in-person working. At various points, there were official requirements to work from home if you could. This meant the proportion of people working from home soared — more than 45% of those working were doing some of that work from home in April 2020.
The remote working trend has now started to fall from those heights, but the proportion of those doing at least some work from home remains much higher than it was before the pandemic. This represents a structural change for the UK economy, and leaves important questions in its wake.
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