Five in 10 UK businesses are using or plan to adopt increased homeworking permanently – but improving staff wellbeing is not the main motivator for doing so.
This is according to data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) which showed as of late July 2023, 21% of businesses reported that they were using, or intending to use, increased homeworking as a permanent business model.
While the move to homeworking across the country has remained broadly stable since late March 2023; reduced overheads were cited as the main reason for using this model among businesses surveyed at 51%, rather than improved staff wellbeing (47%).