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Anna McKie, reporter observes, Surveys reveal widespread support among professional staff for working remotely at least some of the time.
Many universities plan to allow professional staff to work from home at least some of the time post-pandemic, as surveys reveal widespread support for the move.
In the UK, leading institutions such as Durham, Edinburgh and Liverpool universities said that they planned to offer administrators hybrid working in the next academic year, meaning that they would work part of the time on campus and part remotely.
The responses – echoed on campuses around the world – suggest that the rapid switch to home-working during Covid-19 will have a long-lasting impact...
The University of Southampton said staff surveys showed a preference for hybrid working and “[we] expect this to become our normal way of working ahead”. The University of Warwick said it was developing approaches to “flexible and sustainable” ways of working...
Ruth Levin, senior national education officer at Unison, the trade union that represents UK universities’ professional staff, said that it was important that employers engaged with staff on how to introduce more flexible working.
Source: Times Higher Education
