LONDON, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Demand for remote workers in
Britain tripled over the course of 2020 as businesses grew more
willing to let staff work from home during the coronavirus
pandemic, figures from a recruitment consultancy showed on
Monday.
Some 80,700 jobs that allowed remote working were advertised
in November, up from 26,600 in November 2019, recruiters New
Street Consulting Group said, based on industry data provided by
analysts Emsi.
Official data showed 547,000 job vacancies in Britain in the
three months to November, down almost a third on a year earlier.
For now, it is unclear how many remote roles will return to
being office-based once the pandemic is over.
"There has been a trend in recent years to invest more in
the workplace, to make it somewhere where staff would want to
spend time. It will be quite a revolution if that trend doesn't
eventually reassert itself," said Natalie Douglass, a director
at New Street Consulting Group.
"However, we are certainly going to see a more hybrid
workforce with working from home an option for at least some of
their staff," she added.
(Reporting by David Milliken
Editing by William Schomberg)