When work from home becomes a question of culture, not practicality, we have completely lost the point, writes Eliot Wilson

Last week, this paper reported that the United Kingdom has the highest rate of employees working from home in Europe, with white-collar workers averaging 1.8 days a week. The global average is 1.3 days, and Britain is pipped only by Canada, at 1.9 days a week.

I wrote last July that we should focus on overall productivity when we make an assessment of flexible working. That remains my view, all the more so as it seems that the increase in working from home is not temporary. As Dr Cevat Giray Aksoy, associate professor of economics at King’s College London, told City AM, “remote work has moved from being an emergency response to becoming a defining feature of the UK labour market… hybrid work is no longer the exception – it’s the expectation”.

More than five years after the first cases of Covid-19 were identified........

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