I dipendenti del Regno Unito lavorano da casa più della maggior parte dei colleghi globali, lo studio scopre
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/may/24/uk-work-from-home-british-staff-global-study
di F0urLeafCl0ver
I dipendenti del Regno Unito lavorano da casa più della maggior parte dei colleghi globali, lo studio scopre
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/may/24/uk-work-from-home-british-staff-global-study
di F0urLeafCl0ver
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The only people this annoys are the ones who are renting/own offices in the city. Turns out that for a lot of jobs in person attendance is not necessary.
In unrelated news, Europe’s rail fares are the most expensive in Europe and London’s underground is the most expensive in the world.
Well yeah, have you seen the price and unreliability of train fares if you’re commuting outside of London into the city?
Probably says a lot about the quality and/or cost of our transport infrastructure.
Let’s keep going, it’ll be nice to be 1st in something.
Not a bad thing. Saves time on commutes, which are often stressful, bad for the environment and add to traffic.
Also allows for more flexibility in terms of work-life balance.
In terms of London and the southeast:
* The monthly cost of a season ticket from many places in the commuter belt into London is almost a rent or mortgage payment
* Actual rent and mortgage payments in the commuter belt are lower than that of London but not so low that it completely offsets the cost of a season ticket. Especially when you add in the costs of getting to your local station (often by car)
* Many managers and senior staff live in the commuter belt and probably don’t want to create a rod for their own back by forcing people back in
* Many people have kids who go to school in the commuter belt and need picking up before the end of the traditional work day
* Many companies do not want to pay their employees more to cover the costs of life, let alone transport.
It’s just easier to let people wfh for at least part of the week. Although, in my purely anecdotal experience, I do find that it’s mainly the American owned companies that are really pushing towards staff being back in the office far more and public services due to pressures from the media. I think the UK banks still largely operate with a hybrid model, but I’m happy to be corrected on this.
Long live the hybrid model.
> UK employees work from home more than most global peers, study finds
> Exclusive: Staff in Britain now average 1.8 days a week of remote working, above global average of 1.3 days
So how does this UK productivity compare against those said countries?
Classic UK I say. We have a pretty good standard of living for the most part and we’re all still miserable cunts.
Work from home is literally just a function of housing affordability.
I am tired of CEOs whining about it… It *just makes more money* it’s as simple as that.
If you run a business, worker housing is a cost of running that business. For most businesses in the UK it’s the single largest cost. It’s priced in to salaries. And if your competitors are paying less, then your business is going to fail, and you will be outcompeted.
In other countries it doesn’t cost over a months worth of pay in the year just to hop on a train.
I’m sure if public transport costs were lower this may be different. Any reason to save some cash nowadays will be jumped at.
Good. I wouldn’t have it any other way. I work in Finance and I know for a fact my role can be completed remotely. The idea of being in an office seems so archaic especially since I graduated in 2020 so went straight into WfH. Current role is 5 Day Office based and its crap.
Sure seems like a lot of story time allowed to discuss working from home doesn’t it?
I don’t mind as much in the Summer but in Winter it’s just really depressing to having to spend all of your limited sunlight hours at the office
Well we have an appalling train and road network, overcrowded and pricey.. no wonder most people want to work at home