Will we still be working from home three years from now?

What will really determine the new-age office environment will be what is most efficient, writes Hamish McRae

Those with room for a home office aren’t complaining (Getty/iStockphoto)

So for Britons, it’s back to working from home, though for many people WFH is more like SITO – sleeping in the office. And since the new rules may apply for up to six months, we had better find ways of making it all work.

But will it stick for longer? Three years from now, will a lot of us still be in this situation? Or is this one of the sea-changes in working patterns that takes place once in a generation, something akin to the decline of clerical jobs that have taken place since the 1980s?