What five years of evidence on hybrid working tells us about the future of employment

By Jane Parry, Associate Professor of Work and Employment, University of Southampton

The COVID pandemic accelerated remote and hybrid working practices across the world. It also provided evidence that these approaches could work for a wide variety of jobs.

The UK has been at the forefront of the shift to hybrid working and its sustainability as a work practice in future. This year, the Global Survey of Working Arrangements calculated that the typical UK worker averaged 1.8 days of remote working per week,…

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