Working from home stuck around more in Scotland than other parts of the UK even as Covid-19 restrictions eased, figures show. New data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) suggests that the number of people working from home between January and March this year had more than doubled compared to before the pandemic.
Between October and December 2019 there were 4.7 million people working from home across the UK, the ONS said. In the first three months of this year, 9.9 million people used their homes as workplaces.
There was a lot of variation across different parts of the country too. In Scotland homeworking increased nearly 204% as more than half a million more people were working from home, in Northern Ireland, however, the rise was 56%.
