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June 20, 2005 Graeme Codrington Future Trends 1 Comment

Work from homeThe UK government statistics department lists information on the flexibility of the UK workforce. Here are some interesting highlights:

  • Over 25% of the UK workforce “sometimes” work at home
  • The number of people working in “mainly” at home accounts for 2.5% of the workforce – almost double the number who did so in 1981
  • Of these, 69% are women
  • People who work from home more then one day per week account for 3.5% of the workforce
  • Of these, 41% have degrees as opposed to 16% in the workforce as a whole
  • Overall, average pay for home workers is well above the national average
  • 7% of the workforce report having no fixed place to carry out the work.

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  1. Nuf Sed says:
    June 21, 2005 at 9:59 pm

    Yes puleeeeze.

    Nuf Sed

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