• 52 percent of 11,812 office workers report that their workplace enables them to work productively.
• 55 percent of employees worldwide (based on a sample of 155,000+) believe their office environment allows them to work effectively.

The latest ONS Labour Productivity figures are were released on the 8th July 2016. In the April 2016 release, ONS stats revealed that labour productivity, as measured by output per hour, fell by 1.2 percent, and was some 14 percent below an extrapolation based on its pre-downturn trend. 

With productivity falling and labour costs rising (0.4 percent higher in Quarter 4 than the previous quarter), especially in relation to the economic turmoil that has spiralled since Brexit, British businesses were under increasing pressure to boost workforce / organisational performance. Tim Oldman, CEO of Leesman (the world’s largest independent measure of workplace effectiveness) believes the pending ONS release will paint a similar picture. Think-tank Leesman records effectiveness of workplaces and employee satisfaction with office features and services – and the latest figures (Q1 2016), have revealed that only 55 percent of employees worldwide (based on a sample of 155,000+ *) believe their office environment allows them to work effectively. 

In the UK, things are worse. ‘Across 108 UK workplaces and 11,812 employees measured in the last 12-months, just 52 percent of office workers report that their workplace enables them to work productively, and 1 in 3 actively disagree with this statement,’ said Tim Oldman. ‘This is having a continued impact on employees and creating “toxic workplaces” where efforts are being met with business environments that are simply not supporting people in the role they are employed to undertake.’