The UK returns to office but postpones the new normal until July

Immunity leads back to the office. This is evidenced by recent analysis by Morgan Stanley Research, which clearly reflects how advances in virus control by the UK have led to workers returning to offices.

Among the major countries in Europe, the UK has clearly been the most popular choice for telecommuting. After the last Christmas holidays, given the advancement of the pandemic, the average time office workers spent in their usual offices was 33% of their workday, according to February data from Morgan Stanley Research.

Since then, and in large part Thanks to the proliferation of vaccines that increase virus control and a sense of safety, employees are returning to the offices. In March, time spent in their offices increased on average to 36% of their workday, a percentage that in April rose to 42%.

The United Kingdom is the country with the most telecommuting weight among the major nations of Europe

Since the outbreak of the pandemic, Morgan Stanley has conducted a monthly survey among the five major European countries (UK, Germany, France, Italy, and Spain) to analyze the development of telework and estimate return to offices. The UK has always been the country where telecommuting has been the most important.

The average of the five countries analyzed was from November to April, and is always above 50% from the last day on the usual office tables. In the case of the UK, it has always been (except in December, when vaccinations were announced) below 40% until last April, which was at 42%.

In general, workers in these five countries expect a general return to their offices for July, despite having more optimistic employees and less like everything. French officials, for example, believe that there will be normalization in MayThe Germans are at the other end of the spectrum and don’t expect a routine return to their offices until August.

Generally, workers expect to return to normal life from July

Currently, using the latest April data, workers in the five countries analyzed spend an average of 2.2 days in a telecommuting setting, although in the case of the United Kingdom this figure rises to 2.7%. In the case of employees in Madrid and Barcelona, ​​the time spent working remotely was 1.6 days, the lowest of the five countries.

Looking to the future and once the pandemic is over, workers in the five countries want, on average, to spend 1.9 days a week in a telecommuting setting. In the case of the English, this desire is 2.4 days a week, while the French want to work from home only, an average of 1.6 days. The average lifespan of Spaniards is 1.9 days a week.