Just Nine Per Cent Of Professional/Finance/Knowledge Sector Workers Would Choose Full-Time In Office
News from Angus Reid, a non-profit polling agency
Posted July 29th, 2025 on Niagara At Large
From left to right in this photo, before the pandemic with all the traffic and polluted air, and during the pandemic when many people were off the roads, working at home.
(A Brief Foreword by Niagara At Large reporter/publisher Doug Draper – The main reason I am posting this poll on Niagara At Large is that this desire on the part of so many to work at home could have major benefits in terms of keeping more cars off our roads and highways, and reducing climate-ravaging carbon emissions from gas-burning vehicles at the same time.
During the recent pandemic, when many offices were closed and many people had little or no choice but to work at home, tests showed a significant reduction in the amount of carbon and other pollutants entering the atmosphere.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford should support people who want to continue working at home.
If Ontario Premier Doug Ford is as concerned about addressing congestion on our roads and highways as he claims to be, then rather spend countless billions of dollars on more roads and highways, how about passing legislation that supports people in their desire to work at home.
Now here is the Angus Reid News Release.)
With a majority of Fortune 100 companies now requiring desk workers to be fully in office, and major banking institutions like TD, RBC, and BMO upping the required days in office, a faceoff is setting up among workers who evidently prefer to stay at home, and employers who want them back on site.
New data from the non-profit Angus Reid Institute finds three-in-five Canadians (59%) saying they would prefer to spend the majority of their working time at home if it were possible.
While this isn’t an option for many, those who’ve experienced it in the past clearly have an affinity.
Among those who have worked from home in the past or are currently, the number who prefer most of their time in the home office jumps to three-quarters (76%).
Technology, knowledge economy and financial workers, many of the so-called white-collar workers who are under increasing pressure to return are also much more likely to say they would rather not. Seven-in-10 (68%) say they would rather work from home most of the time, and just nine per cent show a preference for full-time, on-site work.
Among those who have been asked to return, sentiments are divided, and compliance is hardly uniform.
While most who have worked from home say they weren’t asked to return to work or increase the number of days on-site (65%), of those who were asked, seven-in-10 (72%) say they went back and followed the policy. Five per cent say they quit, while one-quarter (23%) agreed to the request, but admit that they often spend fewer days than required in office – an issue federal government departments have noted in recent months.
Those who remain entrenched at home, however, are much more resistant to a return to office. Just three-in-10 (28%) say that if they were asked by their current employer to return that they would do so without any complications. The largest group (32%) say they would return but start considering other options, while one-quarter (24%) say they would likely quit outright.
To read the whole release, click on – Home Office vs. Head Office: Most Canadian workers say they prefer to stay home as return-to-work push grows – Angus Reid Institute
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