Hold on to your hats, ladies and gents: according to the Office for National Statistics has found that more than four million Brits work from their homes.
This new milestone was reached sometime in the last 12 months, where the ONS says an additional 62,000 began to work from their home office instead of braving traffic just so they can get to their miserable office cubicle and pretend to be happy. Instead, an increasing number of Brits – well over four million – would rather just wear their pyjamas whilst they sit down at the kitchen table instead.
Now I may be not the first person to point out this growing trend and how it also includes freelancers and umbrella company workers as well but I certainly can say one thing: if you’re looking to get away from the 9 to 5 struggle, you could do much worse than simply going into work for yourself instead of someone else. Contract workers most often work from home an not an actual office building somewhere, especially those that work in fields that don’t require anything more than a laptop and an internet connection, and it’s this new and growing trend that’s been feeding stay at home workers to seemingly no end.
For what it’s worth, I say good. I can only hope that the nation’s freelancers and contractors continue to pick up work they can do from home, and I’m currently keen to see how many permanent employees continue to jog across the line that separates those who work not for a boss but for a client, which would of course swell the ranks. In fact, industry experts predict that the traditional work model will most likely fall by the wayside. I can hardly wait; on that day – if it comes within my lifetime at any rate – I’ll be dancing the Viennese waltz as firms as firms begin to shutter their doors one by one because they suddenly can’t make enough money to justify hiring on employees any more.
