UK remote and hybrid working 2024

In September 2024, approximately 14 percent of workers in Great Britain worked from home exclusively, with a further 27 percent working from home and travelling to work, while 41 percent only travelled to work. During this provided time period, the share of people only travelling to work was highest in March 2022, at 60 percent of respondents, with the peak for only working from home occurring in June 2020. In general, hybrid working has become steadily more popular than fully remote working, with the highest share of people hybrid working happening in November 2023, when 31 percent of people advising they were hybrid working.

What type of workers are most likely to work from home?

In 2020, over half of people working in the agriculture sector mainly worked from home, which was the highest share among UK industry sectors at that time. While this industry was one of the most accessible for mainly working at home, just six percent of workers in the accommodation and food services sector mainly did this, the lowest of any sector. In the same year, men were slightly more likely to mainly work from home than women, while the most common age group for mainly working from home was those aged 75 and over, at 45.4 percent. Over a long-term period, the share of people primarily home working has grown from 11.1 percent in 1998, to approximately 17.4 percent in 2020.

Growth of Flexible working in the UK

According to a survey conducted in 2023, working from home either on a regular, or ad-hoc basis was the most common type of flexible working arrangement offered by organizations in the UK, at 62 percent of respondents. Other popular flexible working arrangements include the ability to work flexible hours, work part-time, or take career breaks. Since 2013, for example, the number of employees in the UK that can work flextime has increased from 3.2 million, to around 4.2 million by 2024. When asked why flexible work was important to them, most UK workers said that it supported a better work-life balance, with 41 percent expressing that it made their commute to work more manageable.

Share of people working remotely, hybrid working, or at work in the United Kingdom from May 2020 to September 2024

Characteristic	Worked from home only	Travelled to work only	Hybrid working
Sep 29, 24	14%	41%	27%
Sep 1, 24	13%	40%	23%
Jul 28, 24	12%	41%	24%
Jun 30, 24	11%	40%	28%
Jun 2, 24	14%	41%	26%
May 19, 24	13%	44%	28%
May 6, 24	11%	43%	30%
Apr 21, 24	15%	40%	21%
Apr 7, 24	12%	43%	27%
Mar 24, 24	13%	44%	28%
Mar 10, 24	12%	44%	29%
Feb 25, 24	15%	42%	27%
Feb 11, 24	13%	46%	25%
Jan 28, 24	14%	45%	29%
Jan 14, 24	13%	30%	15%
Jan 1, 24	13%	45%	24%
Dec 10, 23	11%	45%	29%
Nov 26, 23	14%	43%	28%
Nov 12, 23	12%	43%	31%
Oct 29, 23	13%	40%	30%
Oct 15, 23	12%	40%	30%
Oct 1, 23	13%	44%	27%
Sep 17, 23	13%	45%	25%
Sep 3, 23	14%	38%	22%
Aug 20, 23	15%	36%	23%
Aug 6, 23	13%	39%	28%
Jul 23, 23	11%	46%	26%
Jul 9, 23	12%	43%	24%
Jun 25, 23	16%	43%	25%
Jun 11, 23	12%	45%	25%
May 29, 23	12%	45%	28%
May 14, 23	13%	41%	26%
May 1, 23	9%	45%	28%
Apr 16, 23	14%	44%	23%
Apr 2, 23	13%	46%	26%
Mar 19, 23	13%	45%	26%
Mar 5, 23	11%	46%	25%
Feb 19, 23	12%	46%	26%
Feb 5, 23	14%	44%	27%
Jan 22, 23	14%	43%	25%
Jan 8, 23	15%	36%	13%
Dec 18, 22	15%	45%	24%
Dec 4, 22	13%	48%	25%
Nov 20, 22	13%	47%	25%
Nov 6, 22	12%	46%	25%
Oct 23, 22	13%	48%	24%
Oct 9, 22	11%	48%	22%
Sep 25, 22	13%	47%	22%
Sep 11, 22	13%	45%	22%
Aug 29, 22	15%	42%	21%
Aug 14, 22	14%	46%	18%
Jul 31, 22	16%	43%	21%
Jul 17, 22	16%	45%	24%
Jul 3, 22	18%	45%	21%
Jun 19, 22	18%	44%	17%
Jun 5, 22	15%	48%	23%
May 22, 22	15%	53%	22%
May 8, 22	14%	46%	24%
Apr 24, 22	15%	45%	21%
Apr 10, 22	17%	50%	20%
Mar 27, 22	12%	57%	14%
Mar 13, 22	12%	60%	13%
Feb 27, 22	15%	56%	13%
Feb 13, 22	17%	54%	13%
Jan 30, 22	22%	48%	13%
Jan 16, 22	26%	51%	8%
Jan 3, 22	21%	49%	11%
Dec 12, 21	14%	54%	18%
Nov 28, 21	14%	56%	15%
Nov 14, 21	16%	53%	14%
Oct 31, 21	15%	52%	17%
Oct 17, 21	15%	54%	16%
Oct 3, 21	16%	54%	13%
Sep 19, 21	17%	53%	12%
Sep 5, 21	21%	46%	11%
Aug 22, 21	21%	47%	8%
Aug 15, 21	18%	49%	11%
Aug 8, 21	19%	48%	11%
Aug 1, 21	23%	46%	10%
Jul 25, 21	22%	49%	12%
Jul 18, 21	21%	50%	14%
Jul 11, 21	23%	46%	13%
Jul 4, 21	26%	47%	13%
Jun 27, 21	23%	50%	13%
Jun 20, 21	22%	49%	15%
Jun 13, 21	23%	48%	16%
Jun 6, 21	23%	48%	12%
May 31, 21	22%	49%	15%
May 23, 21	26%	50%	11%
May 16, 21	25%	49%	13%
May 9, 21	26%	49%	11%
May 3, 21	27%	50%	10%
Apr 25, 21	27%	46%	11%
Apr 18, 21	27%	46%	10%
Apr 11, 21	28%	44%	9%
Apr 04, 21	30%	43%	10%
Mar 28, 21	31%	44%	9%
Mar 21, 21	32%	42%	9%
Mar 14, 21	30%	41%	12%
Mar 7, 21	36%	38%	10%
Feb 28, 21	32%	39%	10%
Feb 21, 21	35%	36%	10%
Feb 14, 21	37%	34%	10%
Feb 7, 21	36%	36%	11%
Jan 31, 21	36%	36%	11%
Jan 24, 21	34%	39%	9%
Jan 17, 21	35%	39%	10%
Jan 10, 21	34%	39%	9%
Jan 3, 21	26%	39%	5%
Dec 20, 20	28%	47%	10%
Dec 13, 20	28%	48%	9%
Dec 6, 20	31%	44%	10%
Nov 29, 20	30%	44%	10%
Nov 22, 20	30%	48%	7%
Nov 15, 20	31%	43%	8%
Nov 8, 20	27%	47%	11%
Nov 1, 20	28%	47%	9%
Oct 25, 20	29%	47%	12%
Oct 18, 20	25%	49%	11%
Oct 11, 20	23%	54%	11%
Oct 4, 20	22%	48%	14%
Sep 27, 20	24%	49%	10%
Sep 20, 20	21%	53%	11%
Sep 13, 20	20%	50%	12%
Aug 30, 20	20%	50%	7%
Aug 16, 20	22%	47%	8%
Aug 9, 20	23%	48%	7%
Aug 2, 20	25%	44%	7%
Jul 26, 20	24%	45%	9%
Jul 19, 20	27%	44%	9%
Jul 12, 20	27%	42%	9%
Jul 5, 20	30%	39%	9%
Jun 28, 20	29%	41%	8%
Jun 21, 20	33%	36%	8%
Jun 14, 20	38%	30%	11%
Jun 7, 20	32%	29%	8%
May 31, 20	30%	29%	11%
May 24, 20	33%	29%	7%
May 17, 20	33%	29%	8%

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Release date

October 2024

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Region

United Kingdom (Great Britain)

Survey time period

May 2020 to September 2024

Number of respondents

2,000 to 2,500 per wave

Age group

16 years and older

Special properties

Residents of Great Britain

Method of interview

Telephone interviews and online survey

Supplementary notes

This statistic is using original data from the Office for National Statistics and includes copyright material from © Crown, licensed under the Open Government License v3.0.

Original wording of the question: "In the past seven days, have you worked from home?" and "In the past seven days, have you travelled to work?" Don't knows and prefer not to say are excluded

For this survey, a person is said to be working if last week: they had a paid job, either as an employee or self-employed; or they did any casual work for payment; or they did any unpaid or voluntary work.

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