31 percent of people were traveling to work.
In 2020, nearly 77 percent of employees with entry-level qualifications said that they were never working from home , as opposed to the 11.7 percent of higher degree qualified employees who said they were mainly working from home. At the height of the first wave of the Coronavirus pandemic, in April 2020, almost half of UK workers were working from home, and justShare of employed people working from home in the United Kingdom in 2020, by education level
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Overview
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- Basic Statistic Working location trends in Great Britain 2020-2023
- Premium Statistic Number of employees that work from home in the UK 1998-2020
- Premium Statistic Percentage of employees who work from home in the UK 1998-2020
- Premium Statistic Percentage of employed people that can work from home in the European Union 2002-2020
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Demographics
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- Premium Statistic Percentage of employees who work from home in the UK 2020, by gender
- Premium Statistic Number of employees who work from home in the UK 2020, by age group
- Premium Statistic Percentage of employees who work from home in the UK 2020, by age group
- Premium Statistic Number of employees who work from home in the UK 2020, by region
- Premium Statistic Percentage of employees who work from home in the UK 2020, by region
- Premium Statistic Percentage of employees who work from home in the UK 2020, by ethnicity
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- Premium Statistic Share of people working from home in the UK in 2020, by education level
Sectors
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- Premium Statistic Number of employees that work from home in the UK 2020, by sector
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Hours and earnings
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- Premium Statistic Home office working day pattern in the UK 2020
- Premium Statistic Average weekly hours of work for full-time homeworkers in the UK 2011-2020
- Premium Statistic Average weekly hours of work for part-time homeworkers in the UK 2011-2020
- Premium Statistic Median gross weekly pay for homeworkers in the UK 2011-2020
- Premium Statistic Median gross weekly pay for full-time homeworkers in the UK 2011-2020, by gender
- Premium Statistic Sickness absence rate in the UK 2020, by work from home status
Impact of COVID-19
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- Premium Statistic Location of work at time of Coronavirus in Great Britain in July 2021
- Premium Statistic Reasons for working from home in Coronavirus in Great Britain July 2021
- Premium Statistic Share of people working from home due to Coronavirus in Great Britain 2022, by age
- Premium Statistic Likelihood of being allowed to work from home after Coronavirus Great Britain 2021
- Basic Statistic Working from home situation before Coronavirus and preference afterwards Britain 2021
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Office for National Statistics (UK). (April 19, 2021). Share of employed people working from home in the United Kingdom in 2020, by education level [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved May 19, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1241078/working-from-home-uk-by-education-level/
Office for National Statistics (UK). "Share of employed people working from home in the United Kingdom in 2020, by education level." Chart. April 19, 2021. Statista. Accessed May 19, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1241078/working-from-home-uk-by-education-level/
Office for National Statistics (UK). (2021). Share of employed people working from home in the United Kingdom in 2020, by education level. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: May 19, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1241078/working-from-home-uk-by-education-level/
Office for National Statistics (UK). "Share of Employed People Working from Home in The United Kingdom in 2020, by Education Level." Statista, Statista Inc., 19 Apr 2021, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1241078/working-from-home-uk-by-education-level/
Office for National Statistics (UK), Share of employed people working from home in the United Kingdom in 2020, by education level Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1241078/working-from-home-uk-by-education-level/ (last visited May 19, 2024)
Share of employed people working from home in the United Kingdom in 2020, by education level [Graph], Office for National Statistics (UK), April 19, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1241078/working-from-home-uk-by-education-level/