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Few Scots work from home Print E-mail
Friday, 18 May 2007

British workers and employers are being urged to consider the benefits of working from home on the second annual National Work From Home Day.

Scotland currently has the lowest proportion of people working from home of any region of the UK.

Sponsored by non-for-profit organisation Work Wise UK, the campaign aims to demonstrate that working from home has a number of benefits, including saving both employees and employers time and money, and should not be seen as ‘skiving’.

Research used by Work Wise shows that British workers spend the most time traveling to work of any workers in Europe – as much as 47 working days a year – and that workplace relations could be improved if employees did not have to struggle with traffic or overcrowded public transport to get to work.

Phil Flaxton, chief executive of Work Wise, said that enabling employees to work from home can improve productivity. According to Office for National Statistics figures, over 3.4 million people, or 12 per cent of the workforce, currently work regularly or permanently from home.

Work Wise UK is five-year initiative that promotes better working practices and is backed by a variety of groups including business, unions and government agencies.

"Although some would suggest this could be an excuse to skive, or to extend the weekend, it has been demonstrated that enabling staff to work from home, even occasionally, increases productivity. BT currently employs 64,000 flexible workers and 11,500 contracted full time home workers. Where it has introduced these ‘smarter’ working practices, it has seen a 20 per cent increase in productivity.

"Although a real win-win situation is rare in life, working from home, and other similar smarter working practices, do not have a downside. They benefit all parties: more productivity for businesses, better work-life balance for staff, less congestion for drivers and less over-crowding for public transport users," said Flaxton.
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