Summary

The effect of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on office working and an analysis of changing business and individual attitudes to future working practices. Includes analysis on households and businesses, using the Business Insights and Conditions Survey (BICS) and Opinions and Lifestyle Survey (OPN).

Publications

• Business and individual attitudes towards the future of homeworking, UK: April to May 2021

  Analysis of the effects of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on office working and of business and individual attitudes to future working practices.

Data

• Online remote working job vacancies estimates

  These figures are experimental estimates of online job adverts provided by Adzuna, an online job search engine. The number of job adverts over time is an indicator of the demand for labour. To identify these adverts we have applied text-matching to find job adverts which contain key phrases associated with homeworking such as “remote working”, “work from home”, “home-based” and “telework”. The data do not separately identify job adverts which exclusively offer homeworking from those which offer flexible homeworking, such as one day a week from home.

Methodology

• Using Adzuna data to derive an indicator of weekly vacancies: Experimental Statistics

  Methodology information for online job advert indices covering the UK job market. These are experimental data created as part of the latest indicators release in response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

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