Hybrid working is fuelling demand for more tech and bigger homes – both are bad news for the planet

By Katherine Ellsworth-Krebs, Senior Research Associate in Sustainability, Lancaster University
Carolynne Lord, Senior Researcher, Sociology; Research Associate, School of Computing and Communications, Lancaster University
Torik Holmes, Research Associate, Sustainable Consumption Institute and Sustainable Innovation Hub., University of Manchester

Just 5% of employed people in the UK worked from home in 2019. The onset of the pandemic and the overnight shuttering of offices during the first lockdown meant 47%…

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