Employees in the UK spend much less time within the workplace than every other nation, nevertheless they wish to additional scale back their days additional. That’s in response to a brand new research from Unispace. The report, Returning for Good [registration], combines the outcomes of a ballot of 9,500 workers and 6,650 enterprise leaders from 17 international locations worldwide – discovered that simply 34 % of workers within the UK are within the workplace 4 or extra days every week, much less time than employees in every other nation.
Regardless of these comparatively low attendance ranges, workers wish to scale back the variety of days spent within the office even additional, with simply 21 % of employees within the UK presently completely satisfied to spend 4 or extra days per week within the workplace.
Scorching-desking is distinguished within the UK, with 56 % of workers indicating their workplace is about as much as work on this means, above the worldwide common of 48 %. Of those that do hot-desk, 76 % could be extra inclined to go into the workplace frequently if they’d an assigned desk.
The information did spotlight a misalignment between employers and workers that implies an absence of communication. Solely 53 % of UK employees count on to ultimately be within the workplace no less than 4 days every week, however employers usually tend to understand {that a} return is on the playing cards, with 74 % anticipating this to occur within the close to future.
Whereas 75 % of employers highlighted that profession development together with pay rises, promotions and bonuses might be negatively impacted for hybrid employees, workers are much less conscious of this danger, with solely 59 % stating that they consider this to be the case.
Employees within the UK additionally recorded the bottom degree of firm loyalty (68 % versus the worldwide common of 77 %), although this was additionally underestimated by employers, with 74 % believing their workers have been dedicated to their organisation.
