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Home working doubled during UK Covid pandemic last year – mostly in London

Uneven impact of Covid laid bare, with affluent London suburbs having highest proportion of home workers

The proportion of people working from home more than doubled in 2020 during the Covid-19 pandemic, though it remained a minority of overall workers across the UK, according to an official snapshot.

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said about a quarter of people (25.9%) worked at home at some point in the week before they responded to officials conducting its annual population survey. It said that this compared with 12.4% of workers in 2019.

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