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"Bosses struggle to fill £55-an-hour PA roles because so few candidates want to return to the office with almost half of jobseekers only applying for positions with remote working
- Experts believe staff are in a strong position as the labour market is tight
- Nearly quarter of British workers would rather than go back to the office
- Four in five bosses think their employees work more productively at work "
"One boss based in the Capital told the Sun said: 'I understand the culture has changed post-Covid but the result is businesses are suffering big time. We need someone in the office five days a week."
"'At the moment, the directors are left making the tea and coffee and doing the printing.'"
"A survey by Microsoft questioned more than 20,000 staff from 11 countries and found that bosses and their employees fundamentally disagree about working from home.
Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella told the BBC this tension needed to be resolved as workplaces were unlikely to ever return to pre-pandemic work habits.
The questionnaire found 87 per cent of workers felt they worked as, or more, efficiently from home while 80 per cent of managers disagreed.
WFH habits have changed since the pandemic with three in four Britons now travelling to at work during the week.
But the data published by the Office for National Statistics also found around a third of people are continuing to spend part of their week working at home.
Prior to the pandemic only one in eight employees were home-workers at any one time.
In Whitehall hundreds of civil servants will never have to return to the office after being allowed to work from home permanently.
The Mail on Sunday reported the Civil Service is still advertising ‘work from home’ jobs paying salaries of up to four times the national average.
The Ministry of Defence is looking for a £117,000-a-year Head of Platform Services Executive which the job listing says can be done by ‘remote working (anywhere in the UK)’."
Bosses struggle to fill roles which need staff in the office fulltime
Bosses are struggling to fill well-paid roles as Britons would rather remain jobless or quit their existing work if it meant going into the office fulltime.
