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Greater than two-thirds of Scottish workers not work full-time within the workplace, amid fears it’s damaging the financial system.
The variety of individuals working flexibly now stands at 67 per cent, up from 61 per cent final yr and 46 per cent earlier than the pandemic.
However a 3rd of employers reported they have been struggling to get staff into the workplace as a lot as they want, in line with analysis by consultants Flexibility Works.
Analysis within the US final yr discovered that distant staff’ productiveness is lowered by between 10 and 20 per cent in contrast with these absolutely office-based.
The development for versatile working – championed by the Scottish Authorities – has additionally had a ‘large impact’ on companies reliant on footfall.
Two-third of Scots workers not work full-time within the workplace amid fears for the financial system
Pubs, eating places and small companies have been hit laborious by the sharp downturn within the variety of individuals going to their office full-time.
Retail and hospitality have been each within the prime 5 of industries – topped by manufacturing – with the bottom ranges of versatile working.
Paul Waterson, president of the Scottish Licensed Commerce Affiliation, stated: ‘The large drawback is individuals not coming into cities for work, and that has a large impact on companies, particularly at lunchtimes. It makes city centres much less enticing than they have been.
‘While you ally that with what’s going on with LEZs, the dearth of public transport, particularly late at night time, and automobile parking expenses, it has affected us vastly.’
He added: ‘Governments – native and nationwide – should take a look at that and have a change of emphasis. Everyone is nicely conscious that top streets have died, and the saviour of these excessive streets goes to be hospitality.’
Colin Borland, director of the Federation of Small Companies Scotland, stated that folks coming into city for work ‘are a giant aspect of weekday footfall for companies’.
He stated these working from residence ‘don’t purchase the sandwich, or nip out for a little bit of lunchtime procuring, or have a fast drink with colleagues earlier than catching the prepare residence’.
Scottish Conservative enterprise spokesman Murdo Fraser stated versatile working has its advantages however SNP ministers ‘can’t blithely ignore the impression it’s persevering with to have on our financial system’.
The survey of 262 Scottish enterprise leaders and managers and 1,016 staff, revealed in a ‘Flex for Life 2024’ report, confirmed that 83 per cent of excessive earners work flexibly in contrast with 57 per cent of these incomes lower than £20,000 a yr.
Girls from low-earning households have been least prone to work flexibly.
In the meantime, 77 per cent of those that don’t work full-time within the workplace reported being happier with their work-life stability, and 43 per cent of enterprise leaders and managers agreed that better flexibility is being held up by opposition from their friends and senior colleagues.
The analysis discovered three-quarters of enterprise leaders believed flexibility helped to retain employees and 71 per cent stated it had lowered illness and absence charges.
The Scottish Authorities’s honest work minister Gillian Martin stated: ‘Versatile working is right here to remain.’
Catherine McWilliam, head of the Institute of Administrators in Scotland, stated many ‘key enterprise challenges, corresponding to methods to improve productiveness or take care of employees shortages, could be addressed, at the very least partially, by means of better versatile working’.
