More than a third of UK workers ‘would quit if told to return to office full-time’

Almost half of company leaders in the UK and abroad have said they would prefer their employees to work more frequently from the office. Photograph: Edhar Yuralaits/Alamy

More than a third of UK workers have said they would quit their job if their employer demanded they return to the office full-time, according to research showing how much the world of work has changed since the first Covid lockdown.

Six in 10 employees are considering changing their job this year, according to data gathered by the professional networking site LinkedIn, although one in five of that group said they would remain in their current role if they continued to be able to work remotely, or more flexibly.