Office occupancy outside London is back to 93 per cent of pre-pandemic levels, with workers turning up for an average of four days a week, The Times reports.
The latest survey from Regional Reit, the owner of 154 largely office properties, found that 65 out of 100 desks were occupied during business hours compared with 70 out of 100 before Covid.
Stephen Inglis, chief executive of the company’s asset manager, London & Scottish Property Investment Management, said he was seeing “a steadily improving environment with more people back in the office”. He said the finding that regional workers were back for an average of 4.2 days a week came as a pleasant surprise for his business. “I was expecting three to four days”, he said.
The company surveyed the occupiers of 106 of its buildings, with respondents accounting for 24,000 employees.
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