Opinion

The number of employees who do not want to return to the office has almost doubled since lockdown began, shows a poll carried out for the Institute of Workplace and Facilities Management.

Companies globally are asking questions on the challenges facing their business’s needs, their real estate footprint, and workforce strategy today and going forward.

Real estate consultant JLL claims it has recorded “a dramatic shift” in its own staff’s appetite to work from home more.

More than 67 per cent of workers believe they are more productive when working from home, according to a survey by tech firm Adzooma.

The demand for cleaning supplies has been stretched since the coronavirus pandemic started.

The demand for cleaning supplies is “extraordinary” and will remain so “for the foreseeable future”, according to the Cleaning & Hygiene Suppliers Association (CHSA).

The Construction Industry Council (CIC) says the government should extend the ban on the use of combustible materials on a wider range of buildings than is currently proposed.

Almost three-quarters (70 per cent) of employees working in financial services rate their working from home experience as positive, according to a survey from Deloitte.

Gareme Davis assesses the impact the coronavirus has had on the FM sector.

Half of employees fail to ensure safe data practices when working from home, according to the American email security firm Tessian.

Only one in every four UK workers want to go back to the office full-time, according to the latest in a succession of surveys considering the longer term impact on business models caused by the coronavirus crisis.

An independent survey of more than 900 decision-makers across UK business has found that two fifths (39 per cent) of firms were not in a position to use technology supporting remote working when the lockdown was announced in March.