Stats & Trends | Are staff ready to return to work?

With the vast majority of the UK workforce having worked from home for several months now, getting used to the idea of commuting again and sitting in an office all day has not been welcome news for many Brits.

This, coupled with the concerns over hygiene and the worries around potentially catching coronavirus, has caused many employees to think seriously about where they wish to work in the future.

Recent statistics shared by Theta Financial Reporting, a chartered accountancy and consultancy firm, echo this. In a study of 2,000 employees, it discovered that almost two-thirds of respondents in the nationally representative poll agreed with the statement: “I do not feel comfortable commuting to work via public transport anymore, and think it will be one of the most stressful parts of my day.”

According to Yahoo Finance, 57% added that they did not want to go back to “the normal way of working in an office environment with normal office hours.”