21-05-2025
Working from home is here to stay — if workers get their way
The former M&S boss Stuart Rose deemed that staff working from home were 'not doing proper work', while Lord Sugar branded them 'lazy gits'.
But as business chiefs line up to lambast the work from home trend, workers themselves appear ever more determined to maintain their new work-life balance.
Research has found that the majority of employees in the UK would refuse to comply with full-time return-to-the office mandates. The study, by the Global Institute for Women's Leadership at King's College London and King's Business School, analysed more than a million observations from the government's labour force survey and 50,000 responses from the Survey of Working Arrangements and Attitudes UK. The analysis showed that only 42 per cent of workers would agree to return to
