Offering staff the opportunity to work from home can be highly beneficial to a business and boost staff morale.
The number of people working from home has soared in the past 10 years, with recent research carried out by the Office of National Statistics showing that there were 4.2million employees working remotely from January-March 2014 – the highest rate since comparable records began in 1998.
Of these home workers, around 1.5million worked within their home or its grounds. The high increase in remote working is being reinforced by faster broadband speeds and better IT infrastructure, enabling business people to access information wherever they are, when they need it, over the internet.
