Remote working | Research highlights stark employer-employee disconnect

Only 14% of UK office workers have been instructed to work from home full-time by their employer during the coronavirus outbreak, despite over half (52%) of them expressing a preference to do so – a nationwide study from PR consultancy Tyto has revealed.

The research, which polled 1,000 office workers across the country, has exposed a significant disparity between the action taken by employers in the midst of the outbreak, and employee desire for measures to be taken swiftly. 

Of those polled, just over one-third (37%) of respondents believe that their employers are ready for compulsory remote working arrangements. 

Less than half (41%) of employees are confident that their employer has the technology infrastructure in place to enable them to work productively and securely from home.