UK employees are going into the workplace a mean of 1.5 days every week, with solely 13% coming in on a Friday, a survey suggests.
Consultancy Superior Office Associates surveyed 43 places of work within the UK, representing almost 50,000 folks, in June and July.
It suggests common attendance was 29%, with a peak of 39% mid-week.
Throughout the pandemic, places of work shifted to home-working however many have continued with a hybrid mannequin since then.
Pre-Covid, UK employees have been going into the workplace a mean of three.8 days every week, in line with the analysis which coated sectors together with banking, power, engineering, healthcare, insurance coverage and tech.
Nevertheless, in line with the Workplace for Nationwide Statistics (ONS) nearly all of folks don’t work at home.
Its survey in spring 2022, when steering to work at home was not in place in Nice Britain, advised 38% of working adults reported having labored from dwelling sooner or later over the previous seven days.
Superior Office Associates, which advises organisations together with the Cupboard Workplace, NatWest and Community Rail, discovered the UK was broadly in keeping with different nations.
It additionally surveyed 36 places of work in 12 different nations, representing greater than 27,000 folks.
The consultancy’s findings advised folks have been coming into the workplace a mean of 1.4 days every week, in comparison with 3.8 days every week pre-pandemic.
Common attendance was 26%, with a peak of 35% mid-week.
North America and Latin America had the bottom common attendance.
Banking had the best common attendance of the sectors surveyed and tech had the bottom.
The survey advised organisations with hybrid working insurance policies – the place they specify workers must be within the workplace for a sure variety of days – had larger attendance than people who didn’t.
Nevertheless, workers nonetheless seemed to be going into the workplace lower than the coverage mandated.
If an employer trusts its groups to set their very own insurance policies, attendance is 41% – virtually the identical as the place a three-day week is imposed.
The UK authorities first requested folks to work at home if they might in March 2020.
Steerage and authorized restrictions have diversified between totally different components of the UK since then however in England and Scotland recommendation to work at home was lifted most just lately in January. Different components of the UK stored the steering in place for longer however finally dropped it.
