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Lie-ins & cleaning on calls | Have professional standards been slipping due to homeworking?

Have professional standards been slipping due to homeworking?

Remote working throughout the pandemic and the current move to hybrid working for many has afforded workers benefits such as the opportunity to save time and money on commuting.

However, new research has suggested that Brits may in fact be seeing the negative effects of homeworking, with the rise of what the research has reffered to as ‘home comfort syndrome’.

The research, which was conducted by Poly and polled over 4,000 hybrid workers from the UK, France and Germany, found that behaviours have dramatically changed as a result of shifts in working life, as reported by City AM. 

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