Datasolutions has today revealed the findings of a survey which found that a third of Irish office workers admitted they would leave their current company if not offered the option to work from home, either part-time or full-time, on a permanent basis.
The study – conducted by Censuswide in August 2020 and involving more than 500 Irish office workers – showed that 69% of workers are satisfied with the options their organisations are offering in terms of working going forward.
Some 39% of respondents will be expected to return to the office full-time, although less than a fifth have done so at the moment.
37% of workers say they will be given the option of splitting their week between the office and home in the long-term, including 34% of those workers who only recently started working from home as a result of the pandemic.
The majority of workers believe their company IT strategy was implemented quickly, was adequate and has been effective throughout the pandemic.
However, 46% of those say their company needs to update its IT strategy for the future.
Furthermore, 38% of organisations have not communicated their plans to staff in terms of a return to the office in the future.
While 71% of respondents say their companies have invested in getting the office ready and compliant following the pandemic, more than half of organisations have not allocated a budget to allow workers to create a more permanent working from home environment.
David Keating, Group Security Sales Director, DataSolutions, said: "So far, Irish businesses have done a great job of reacting to the crisis and implementing the makeshift technologies they needed to get by in the here and now".
"But there is still a huge amount of indecision about the future, as seen by the fact that 38% of organisations have not communicated their plans to staff in terms of returning to the office," he said.
