UK knowledge workers have inflexible bosses

According to a Microsoft UK press release:

“less than one third of UK knowledge workers – those who class an office as their primary work place – are allowed to work flexibly for just one day a week. Londoners fair better with 52 percent allowed to work flexibly, but for Northern Irish employees, a staggering 82 percent are being made to come into the office every day.”

There’s no attribution given for these numbers in the press release (now offline), so Microsoft’s PR consultants may have just pulled them out of thin air. At a guess and going purely on personal experience I’d say the numbers in Sydney and Auckland would be closer to Northern Ireland than London.