Employees are being forced back to the office but wheres your boss? [Video]

The pandemic undoubtedly changed how we do our jobs, with lockdowns prompting a huge rise in remote and hybrid work.

It was a welcome shift for many, but in the years that have followed, companies have started to roll back on changes and get employees back into the office.

According to research from the ONS, just 14% of UK staff are fully remote in 2024, while 26% combine travelling in and working from home. This is compared to figures from 2020, when 46.6% of employees did at least part of their job from home.

Sir Jim Ratcliffe, co-owner of Manchester United and one of the vocal cohort of billionaires fighting against the hybrid model, last month ordered club staff to either return to the office full-time or resign. Elon Musk has also called working from home ‘morally wrong’, and Amazon CEO, Andy Jassy, recently told staff their roles were ‘probably not going to work out’ unless they came in ‘at least three …