BSA 2024 Legal Salary Guide v3 SPREADS - Flipbook - Side 12
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Post-pandemic attitudes
to flexible working
In March 2020, the UK Government announced
the country was entering lockdown to prevent
the spread of Covid-19. Practically overnight,
organisations had to co-ordinate and manage
a workforce that was almost exclusively working
from home.
The vast majority of employers handled these
challenges with aplomb, ensuring they not only
remained operational throughout the crisis, but
also safeguarded the health and wellbeing of their
staff during a dif昀椀cult time.
Hybrid working models were subsequently
described as the ‘new normal’. But have attitudes
towards 昀氀exible working changed in the aftermath
of Covid-19?
97% of employers
offer flexible working
(unchanged from last year)
Overall, most employers are still embracing a
more 昀氀exible approach since the pandemic,
although we are beginning to see some organisations expect a greater of昀椀ce presence from staff.
In 2022, 75% of candidates said they could work
at least three days a week from home, with 28%
of these able to work fully remote. Last year, these
昀椀gures dropped to 62% and 21%, respectively, and
the standard hybrid model in many workplaces is
now a minimum of three days a week in the of昀椀ce.
