Neil McLeese Opinion Covid: It’s time to consider the long-term impact on mental health of working from home on the Northern Ireland workforce

Coming into 2020 working from home wasn’t something that a lot of people would have considered. In fact, the ONS statistics show that in the five years up to December 2019 the numbers of people mainly working from home had only slightly increased from 4.3% to 5.1% of the total UK workforce. In Northern Ireland in 2019, only 3.8% of the working population reported that they mainly worked from home.