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UK weather | 4 in 10 remote staff plan to go 'Al Desko' this year

4 in 10 remote staff plan to go 'Al Desko' this year

More than four in ten (43%) remote workers plan to go ‘Al Desko’ this year by moving their laptops and work equipment into their gardens when the weather brightens up.

With the Sun reporting that some parts of Britain could be on track to be hotter than Ibiza in the next couple of days, it is possible that remote staff could be turning to their gardens to work.

The new research from Lenovo, which polled 1,000 UK adults who are working from home, found that as many as eight in ten (79%) say that they feel more productive when they have had some fresh air – SWNS Digital reported.

Half (50%) of staff think that having flexibility over where they work can have a positive impact on their productivity levels.

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