Sickness absence rate in the UK 2020, by work from home status
In 2020, employees who mainly worked from home had a sickness absence rate of 0.74 percent, as opposed to the 2.2 percent sickness absence rate of employees who never worked from home. The sickness absence rate for those employees that mainly work from home has been steadily declining since 2011. 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.
