Homeworking in UK – Around 8.7 million people said that they have worked from home

• Of the 32.6 million in employment, around 1.7 million people reported working mainly from home, with around 4.0 million working from home in the week prior to being interviewed for the survey.
• Around 8.7 million people said that they have worked from home; this is less than 30% of the workforce.
• Some industrial sectors, such as transportation and storage, accommodation and food services, and wholesale, retail and repair provide relatively few opportunities for people to work from home.
  Other industrial sectors, such as information and communication, professional, scientific and technical activities, financial and insurance activities, and real estate activities, provide far more homeworking opportunities.
• Occupations requiring higher qualifications and experience are more likely to provide homeworking opportunities than elementary and manual occupations.
• Younger workers are the least likely to be working from home, whereas those who continue to work beyond State Pension age are increasingly likely to be working from home.

Chosen excerpts by Job Market Monitor. Read the whole story @ Coronavirus and homeworking in the UK labour market – Office for National Statistics