Less than half of small businesses will ask staff to return to the office full-time Home working has been widely adopted during the pandemic and could be here to stay for many employees. Fewer than one in two of small business owners plan to advise their staff to return to the office after 21 June, when government restrictions on home working will be lifted, according to new survey results. Financial services company Hitachi Capital Business Finance polled over a thousand UK-based small business owners to find out how they plan the return to the office for their employees. The results showed that 16 per cent plan to continue working remotely even after restrictions ease and almost a quarter said they will use a hybrid set up, rather than a full return to the office. Almost a third said they are now set up to work remotely for good.