More than 40% % of Brits continue to work from home at least once a week, according to a new Office for National Statistics (ONS) report.
The report reveals that between September 2022 and January 2023, 28% of Brits reported hybrid working and a further 16% worked solely from home.
Home delivery expert ParcelHero believes people working from home are now a firmly established market that retailers ignore at their peril.
ParcelHero’s Head of Consumer Research, David Jinks, said: “These latest ONS figures show home working is far from a flash in the pan. Before the pandemic, very few people worked from home. As recently as 2019, just 12% reported working from home at some point in the previous week. Of course, Covid changed that. At its height, 49% of us worked from home at some point during the week.
“Crucially, that number has not fallen nearly as far as less-trusting employers want us to believe or old-skool retailers would like to believe.”
