Employees on the Isle of Wight who are working from home have the highest happiness rating in the United Kingdom, according to a new survey.
As Islanders in their droves have been forced to work from a make-shift home office during the coronavirus pandemic amidst bans on travel and socialising, insolvency practitioners Hudson Weir polled 3,500 employees across the country to find out how they have coped.
The average employee in the UK rates their happiness working from home at 6.6/10, but it appears the real winners are workers on the Isle of Wight, who rate their happiness at a weighty 7.1/10.
However, those that live in cities such as Newcastle, Sunderland, and Belfast are obviously not happy with their current setup, rating their happiness at a lowly 6.2.
Broken down by industry, the happiest home-workers are in the IT and tech industries, at 7/10. This is understandable, given that many of them may have been working from home for part of the week in pre-pandemic times. Surprisingly, high-earning lawyers were among the least happy work from home employees at 4.9/10. Charity workers have been rated as the unhappiest.
Over half of employees (66%) say they put in more hours of work each day when working from home than they do in their physical workplace and over half (54%) take fewer breaks than they would if they were at the office.
And the best thing is you don’t need to wear a mask!
Oh dear…it’s a hard life huh! Time you all got back into too work or take a pay cut for whats provided by a lot of these homeowners(phone answer ones particularly)are NOT DOING YOUR JOB.cant sort stuff cant find out or do very little.council for one.try getting help or advice is frustrating !
It’s easy too put in plastic windows too seperate while on phone.stop throwing our money on floaty bridge moneypit and spend it on getting staff back in safely.it can be done
Lazy excuses
Yes they’re all happy…it’s cushy and all on full pay.
Key workers had too go into workplace
Down the beach everyday and getting paid for it.
The ladies in Boot’s didn’t work from home, the chirpy Co-op staff on nearly zero hours contracts couldn’t either. Not an option for the Police, Fire Brigade or our wonderful doctors and nurses in hospitals. The twenty-seven new neighbours I suddenly had during the first, so called, lockdown all worked from home. Definitely locals, honest. They seemed happy, until they found out there was no Costa-bomb coffee, or ‘take-out’ Nando’s, or flat roads for the Audi, or that one actually has to walk up our bea Down’s, not get carried up by straw munching farm workers spouting, ‘Barkis is willing.’ Survey is an insult to my intelligence.
Hollibobs galore “working from their 2nd homes, working in renting them out illegally!!” more like….. Couldn’t agree more.
Looks like the idiots are back o here thumbing down true comments.please guys go away and be useful
Majority of home workers on the island are council employed, I think I’d be happy doing sod all, now also at home in my pjs
Some weeks ago Nationwide announced that it was going to continue allowing it’s staff to work from home indefinitely, with the entire emphasis being on the staff.
Not specifically about Nationwide but as a customer of other organisations I have found that not to be a satisfactory system particularly with financial and pension institutions.
While they are almost uniformly nice people and, at the end of the call, it’s been interesting to hear that Newcastle is bathed in sunlight while we’re in a hail storm, there are distractions in the background, children, dogs etc. and occasionally things have gone awry. Documents not transferred, emails n
Worked at home for years before Covid much that a main office which sucks