A PR company has issued a press release claiming that research shows that up to 70% of employees in the UK plan to ask their employers if they can work flexibly and/or remotely for at least some or all of the time. 70% of workers plan to ask for remote or flexible working of at least some kind from their employers following the pandemic in 2020. The whole pandemic situation has opened up huge opportunities for employers to save on costs going forward, and use home working as a way of either increasing their prospects of recruitment or by saving costs in terms of rates paid because people no longer have to travel all the time to their offices or places of work. For employees enforced working from home has opened a lot of eyes to how much time each day is completely wasted travelling to and from a place of work, when for a number of jobs it is completely unnecessary to do so. Not good news for the commercial property sector which is taking a battering along with ...
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