I live close to Shoreditch but preparation time and travel both ways is easily 2 hours a day (for some of my colleagues that would be 3+ hours a day).
If you went from working from home 100% 5 days a week to working from the office 100% 4 days a week results in the exact same amount of time, except you remove all the monetary savings from working from home (~100GBP in travel alone).
No thank you.
They claim 80% of time but it's not true at all as I explained before. Not only that but the cost for the individuals is huge when going back to the office.
You must not live in London to comment that.
The number of people who are working from home will not be 100% nor will the number of companies working from home exclusively be 100%.
Given we have had limited time to run this experiment, perhaps it would be good if we didn't just jump to conclusions that working from home is the be all and end all. The office has had a pretty good run of productivity over the last century.
I'd rather work a 5 day week if I could work from home then a 4 day work week and have to travel to the office
They tell people they will spend 20% less time to work-related activities which as I said is a lie.
Not only will they spend just as much time for work, it will be more unpleasant and more costly than working from home.
Tons of people would prefer a 4-day in-office work week over a 5-day remote work week. You may not, but there are many who do.