For those people who had to switch to working from home during the pandemic, most seem to like the change. In fact, pollster Angus Reid says, nearly half who prefer to work from home, would look for a new job if forced to go back to the office.

Half of Canadian households had someone working from home over the past year. 29% would like to make that the norm, while 44 per cent would do a mix of both. Only 27 per cent would prefer to return primarily to the office.

More Key Findings:

• 71 per cent say their productivity at home was good or great. Fewer, but still three-in-five (61per cent) say this of their mental state. One-in-five (21 per cent) say the social aspect of working from home has been terrible, while another 45 per cent say it was challenging.
• Half of those aged 18 to 24 say their productivity was “awful” or “challenging”.
• Two-thirds of people in households with less than $50,000 in annual income say no one worked from home in the pandemic; only one-in-five in households with greater than $150,000 annual income said the same.