Employee experience | Gov spends £590k to gauge staff opinions on WFH & office returns

The government has spent nearly £590,000 on attempting to find out how civil servants feel about working from home and returning to the office.

Much of the research revealed that civil servants have resoundingly wanted the flexibility afforded to them from working from home, with only 3% of them wanting to return to the office after the pandemic.

The costly research, which was revealed by The Mail on Sunday, was carried out by the Government Property Agency (GPA), an organisation that operates all government buildings and attempts to realise the best ways of working and workplaces for civil servants.

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