Experimental estimates from the Annual Population Survey for homeworking in the UK, including breakdowns by sex, full-time or part-time, ethnicity, occupation, industry, qualifications, hours worked, pay and sickness absence among others. Includes regression outputs on the different outcomes for homeworkers.

Breakdowns of the prevalence of homeworking by industry, occupation, region, age, sex and ethnicity.

In June 2025, approximately 13 percent of workers in Great Britain worked from home exclusively, with a further 26 percent working from home and travelling to work, while 44 percent only travelled to work. During this 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 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 6 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.

In 2020, approximately *** million people worked mainly from home in the United Kingdom, an increase of around **** million people when compared with 1998, when just *** million workers mainly worked from home. As a share of all workers in the United Kingdom, this was the equivalent of **** percent of the UK workforce, compared with **** percent in 1998. Rise of the hybrid workforce More recent figures on working location trends in Great Britain, indicate that as of June 2025, around ** percent of workers had worked from home exclusively in the last seven days, with a further ** percent only travelling to work. Just over a ******* of British workers, however, had both worked from home and traveled to work in the last seven days. Although less common than only travelling to work, hybrid working has generally been more popular than only working at home since around Spring 2022 and is possibly one of the most enduring impacts that COVID-19 had on the labor market. Demographics of homeworkers While advancements in internet connectivity and communication software have enabled more people to work from home than ever before, there are still obvious disparities in the share of homeworkers by industry. Over **** of the UK’s agriculture workforce in 2020 regularly worked from home, compared with just *** percent of those that worked in accommodation or food service. In the same year, the region with the highest share of people working from home was South West England at **** percent, while Northern Ireland had the lowest at just *** percent.

Homeworking data from Labour Market Survey (LMS), split by age, sex, region, ethnicity and occupation, UK.

In 2020, employees who mainly worked from home worked an average of **** hours a week, compared with the ***** hours worked in 2013. At the height of the first wave of the Coronavirus pandemic, in **********, almost half of UK workers were working from home, and just ** percent of people were traveling to work.

How workers spent their working day in 2015, and April and September 2020 based on data from the Time Use Survey. Includes start time and length and number of breaks. Disaggregated by those who work from home and those who work away from home.

In 2020, *** thousand people working in the professional, scientific, and technical industries in the United Kingdom worked mainly from home, the highest number of any sector. The industry sector with the highest percentage of homeworkers was agriculture, forestry, and fishing, with over half of that industry's workforce working from home.

In 2020, nearly 77 percent of employees with entry-level qualifications said that they were never working from home , as opposed to the 11.7 percent of higher degree qualified employees who said they were mainly working from home. At the height of the first wave of the Coronavirus pandemic, in April 2020, almost half of UK workers were working from home, and just 31 percent of people were traveling to work.

This dataset contains breakdowns of homeworkers by different characteristics using data from the Opinions and Lifestyle Survey (OPN).

Data on working population's location of work patterns, well-being and attitudes to future working from home plans broken down by age, sex, income and region. Data are based on the COVID-19 module of the Opinions and Lifestyle Survey, collected between 21 April and 16 May 2021.

In 2020, the average median weekly earnings for men who were full-time workers was *** British pounds a week, compared with *** for women. At the height of the first wave of the Coronavirus pandemic, in **********, almost half of UK workers were working from home, and just ** percent of people were traveling to work.

Data on working patterns and location of work of adults in Great Britain, including costs and benefits of homeworking and future expectations. Survey data from the Opinions and Lifestyle Survey (OPN).