New data shows high proportion of workers are back in the office.

 

South Australian workers have been identified as the country’s most dedicated office workers with new data showing the state’s employees are spending fewer days working from home than their interstate counterparts.

 

A higher proportion of South Australian workers are now back in their offices than the rest of Australia following COVID lockdowns, with only 16.9 per cent of employees working from home for some of their time, compared to a national average of 27 per cent.

 

SA workers were spending 1.42 days working from home over the surveyed fortnight compared to the NSW average of 2.53 days and Victoria’s 2.3 days, according to the latest Transport Opinion Survey conducted by the University of Sydney’s Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies.

 

Across Australia, workers spent an average of 2.13 days working from home over a fortnight.

 

SA’s higher office returns reflected the state’s lower impacts from COVID where it “did not experience lockdowns to the same extent and had little opportunity to test this like other employers”.