Working: a healthy hybrid era?

With offices beginning to reopen around the UK, many workers are questioning whether they want to go back or continue homeworking. Hybrid work may be the solution that combines the best of both worlds.

The experience of working from home during the Covid-19 pandemic will change work in Britain forever. Britain’s homeworkers may have been shielded from some of the more immediate impacts of the virus but Healthy Hybrid: a Blueprint for Business, RSA’s research with Vitality, shows the toll upon their health and wellbeing has still been high. Seven in ten homeworkers report experiencing more aches and musculoskeletal pain, whilst levels of mental health distress have soared, particularly during the most recent lockdown.

Yet despite this, the vast majority of homeworkers are determined to spend more time working from home in the future too – only 16% of homeworkers surveyed in this research would prefer to work mainly in a physical location.

Access the report here.