Workplace Attendance

No matter how many surveys are run, how many reports are written, there will be those who say ‘black’ when the data says ‘white’ .

The picture is evolving and will continue to do so. It needs to continue to evolve in order to generate creative thinking and innovative solutions.

A very high-level cutting of the data indicates that responses indicating a formal attendance policy of 4 or 5 days per week in the workplace were all from private or third sector clients.

SPACE’s own perspective— from working with clients and from our interactions across a range of sectors—is that the public sector has been slower to return to the workplace than others.

This has consequences for the public sector estate, and we know this is being studied at local and central government level. Whether we anticipated this low level of public sector utilisation or not is difficult to say.

As workplace consultants, we perhaps expected a bit more certainty by early 2023, or at least to be further on the journey towards greater certainty so long after lockdown restrictions have eased.