Home workers are 13 per cent less productive than hybrid workers and are costing the economy billions, an analysis has shown.
The research, conducted by Vitality, found that home workers lost the most productive days (53 days) and hybrid workers lost the least (47 days).
The survey of 8,500 employees and employers also revealed that Britain’s economy lost 127.9bn in 2022 as a result of low employee productivity and absence.
But Gemma Dale, business lecturer at Liverpool John Moores University, said this data did not reflect her professional experience. “Research consistently finds productivity increases when people work from home,” said Dale.
She added that the impact of remote working on productivity “[depends] on a range of factors, from how it is introduced and managed, to the specific approaches that the organisation undertakes in relation to communication, policy and training, among others”.
In the survey one-fifth (20 per cent) said they were suffering from burnout, with those affected typically losing 93 productive days per year – more than twice as many as those who did not experience burnout.
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