Working from home has become one of the key battlegrounds in the culture wars, with almost one in four people now believing they should be allowed to work from abroad.
Researchers found that 23 per cent of people want to work fully remotely so they can live anywhere in the world while working for UK-based companies.
Generation Z is the most willing to relocate: 44 percent of 18- to 24-year-olds say working from home could extend to working from abroad.
Millennials are the next most enthusiastic: 35 percent of people ages 25 to 39 believe that if they are allowed to work from home they should be allowed to move internationally.
Researchers found that 23 per cent of people want to work fully remotely so they can live anywhere in the world while working for UK-based companies (file image)
Those between 40 and 55 years old (Generation X) and the least enthusiastic (27) believe they should be allowed to work from abroad.
And the Baby Boomer generation (those over 55) rejects the idea, with only 17 percent attracted to it.
International money app Zing asked 2,000 UK adults if they thought work-from-home culture should be expanded to allow them to work from abroad.
James Allen, founder and chief executive of Zing, said: ‘Our research shows that views on remote working internationally are evolving across all age groups in the UK.
‘Accelerated by Covid-19 lockdowns, employees are increasingly exploring opportunities to work remotely around the world.
“Remote work presents exciting opportunities, including the chance to immerse yourself in different cultures for an extended period.”
Generation Z is the most willing to relocate: 44 percent of 18- to 24-year-olds say working from home could extend to working from abroad (file image)
A Mail on Sunday investigation in February found that the NHS has allowed hundreds of staff, including consultants and senior managers, to work thousands of miles from the UK.
Freedom of information requests showed staff were working as far away as Australia and Japan and that at least 335 NHS staff from 33 trusts were allowed to work overseas in the last two years.
The real figure is certain to be much higher, as 200 trusts and bodies did not respond to FoI requests and 35 said they did not have such data.
In September last year, it emerged that 1,350 council staff had also been granted permission to work from abroad following Freedom of Information requests from the Taxpayers’ Alliance.
The number jumped from 73 approvals in 2021-22 to 440 in 2021-22.
It then rose to more than 700 last year as the remote work revolution took hold.
One local authority accepted 300 applications over the three-year period.
Overall, the researchers found that more than half (62 percent of Generation Z) now believe that at least part of their working life will be spent abroad.
And 17 per cent of all ages said they do not want their company to restrict them from working only in the UK.
Spain is the first choice for people who want to work abroad: 40 percent of all age groups say they would like to work there.
Millennials are the next most enthusiastic: 35 percent of people aged 25 to 39 believe that if they are allowed to work from home they should be allowed to move internationally (file image)
Canada also ranked highly: a third (33 percent) said they would like to work there, while the United States scored 31 percent.
Australia ranked fourth with 30 percent, and Italy ranked fifth with 28 percent along with New Zealand.
According to the latest data from the Office for National Statistics, 16 per cent of UK working adults worked from home from September 2022 to January last year (2023).
Before the Covid-19 pandemic, around one in eight working adults (around 12 percent) worked from home.
London workers reported the highest level of hybrid working, with four in ten working both from home and traveling to work.
