Work-life balance | HR among top 10 remote-friendly industries, study finds

Employers in the HR sector are in the top 10 industries most open to remote working when recruiting new staff, according to new research.

Equity management platform Vestd analysed data from job listing site Indeed to work out which sectors were the most likely to advertise and hire for remote roles. The study was launched after a report from the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology revealed that around one in eight UK employees are working from home exclusively.

Vestd’s research found the sectors with the most demand included IT, which was an early adopter to remote working, even before the pandemic, along with creative industries such as marketing, design and advertising.

Not surprisingly, sectors where workers are primarily ‘on the shop floor’ had the smallest number of remote roles listed. The hospitality sector was least able to allow staff to work from anywhere, with only 0.5% of nearly 60,000 jobs listed with the option to work from home full-time.