1. Employees home
2. Employee shared space
3. Home of a co-worker and
4. Anywhere with an internet connection!
This is called hybrid working and is a form of working that both employees and employers are more comfortable with in 2022.
1. Growing trend over 20 years
2. COVID-19 escalation
3. Lower costs for both businesses and employees
4. Positive green and environmental impact due to minimal travel
5. Demanded by the modern workforce
6. Increased access to skilled staff for employers
7. Internet availability and IT infrastructure for remote working is now place
Flexible hours
Improved motivation
Improved work-life balance
IT Infrastructure
Lower infections
Reduced costs:
Work clothing
Food
Travel
Reduced commuting time
Relocation to desired location
Work anywhere without leave:
Family
Friends home
Holiday home
Depending on Company Policy
Business continuity
Cover multiple time zones
Fewer meetings
Higher productivity
Improved Environmental footprint
No relocation costs
Insurance
Rates
Rent/Buying properties
Utility costs
Other savings too!
Reduced staff turnover
Timeliness – employees will arrive on time
Wider workforce pool
(not just local)
1. Communication difficulties
2. Isolation
3. Possibly longer working hours
4. Work merges with personal life
1. Hovering supervisors
2. Providing emotional support
3. Remote ICT systems implementation
4. Inconsistent internet availability
5. Resolving technical challenges
1. Workers planning to work mainly from home rose from 30% to 42% between April 2021 and May 2022 [1]
2. In March 2020 before COVID-19 12% of workers had worked from home in the past 7 days, this rose to 38% in March 2022 [1]
3. In the April 2022 Remote Working in Ireland survey, answers revealed the following working locations for workers [2]:
Hybrid – one or more days from home per week
Fully remotely
Working fully in person only
4. In the same survey employees already working remotely were asked about their preferences between remote and in person working, and the results were [2]:
5 days a week
1 day
2 days
3 days
4 days
Don’t want to work remotely
5. In a survey, London workers revealed the following shift from pre-Covid (February 2022) compared to April 2022 [3]:
6. The same survey revealed the following benefits were perceived by these London workers [3]:
A home office, spare bedroom, or at the very least a desk
Garden offices are becoming an affordable and popular choice for many home workers
Utilities such as electricity, heating, phone and internet
Office furniture and equipment
We hope you have found this infographic from Corcoran’s interesting and valuable. Why not visit our website to embrace remote and home working by investigating our home and office furniture ranges?
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Sources:
[1] https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/employmentandemployeetypes/articles/ishybridworkingheretostay/2022-05-23
[2] http://whitakerinstitute.ie/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Remote-Working-Survey-Report-2022-final-updated.pdf
[3] https://www.kcl.ac.uk/policy-institute/assets/wfh-revolution-how-new-ways-of-working-are-changing-london.pdf
