From beating burglary to weight gain: 12 ways that working from home has changed Britain

Fathers can spend more time at home with their children and mothers have more chance of joining the workforce, research suggests. Photograph: 10’000 Hours/Getty Images

Have we finally reached the new normal? It was an enduring question during the pandemic, as people grappled with rapidly changing laws and emerging advice about Covid.

Now, two years after most of the restrictions were lifted, Britain appears to have found a balance between Working From Home and Returning To Office. Just under half of workers WFH at least some of the time, according to the Office for National Statistics, a state of affairs that seems unlikely to change, since the number of job ads mentioning home working tracked by analysts WFH Research has been hovering at 15%-20% for the past two years, compared with 3% in 2019.