A worthy sacrifice? | Staff will accept more surveillance if it means more flexibility, study shows

It’s been more than three years since the UK went into its first ever lockdown, prompting a virtually overnight shift to remote working for many companies, many of which are still operating on at least a part-time basis to this day.

The benefits of hybrid and remote working have been widely extolled by now – whether it’s doing away with geographical restrictions to hire from a wider talent pool, improving your workforce’s wellbeing through a better work-life balance or fewer outgoings on commuting and those overpriced sandwiches at lunchtime.

But of course, some drawbacks have refused to go away – one of which being the paranoid boss’s dilemma of how to make sure your remote workers are actually, well, working.

The most obvious and simple solution is to trust your workers. As long as their daily tasks are ticked off by the time they clock off, does it really matter whether they’re glued to their desk every second of the day?