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.
Sickness absence rate in the United Kingdom from 2011 to 2020, by work from home status
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Office for National Statistics (UK). (April 19, 2021). Sickness absence rate in the United Kingdom from 2011 to 2020, by work from home status [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved January 17, 2025, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1241111/sickness-absence-rate-working-from-home/?__sso_cookie_checker=failed
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