"How do businesses feel about homeworking as a permanent option? ","" "Intentions for staff working from home, businesses who have not permanently stopped trading, broken down by industry, weighted by count, UK, 5 to 18 October 2020","" "","" "Notes","1. Question: “Does your business intend to use increased homeworking as a permanent business model going forward?” 2. Final weighted results, Wave 16 of the Office for National Statistics (ONS) Business Insights and Conditions Survey; businesses not permanently stopped trading. 3. Bars may not sum to 100% because of rounding and percentages less than 1% being removed for disclosure purposes. 4. Other services, Mining and quarrying, and Water supply, sewerage, waste management and remediation activities have been removed for presentational purposes, but their totals are included in “All industries”. " "Unit","%" "","" "Industry","Not sure ","No - do not intend to use increased homeworking","Yes - do intend to use increased homeworking" "Information and communication","33.6","29.8","36.6" "Professional scientific and technical activities","20.1","46.3","33.6" "Education","23.6","48.2","28.1" "Manufacturing","5.9","78","16.1" "Administrative and support service activities","27.9","56.6","15.5" "Human health and social work activities","3.5","82.4","14.1" "Arts entertainment and recreation","40","46.1","13.9" "Wholesale and retail trade","11.4","77.4","11.2" "Construction","11","80.2","8.8" "Real estate activities","53.5","43.7","2.8" "Transportation and storage","1.6","98","*" "Accommodation and food service activities","13.1","86.5","*" "","","","" "All industries ","17.4","65.3","17.3"