Edinburgh named best place to work from home by new report

Research from Uswitch’s Remote Working Index 2020 published today revealed that the Capital is the best place in Scotland to be working from home during the pandemic.

The streets of central Edinburgh remain empty of early morning commuters during lockdown.

The index measures UK cities based on seven metrics, including crime rate, green spaces, air quality, broadband speed and number of local GPs.

The top spot was bagged by Edinburgh due to the city’s fast broadband speed and ample green space.

Conversely, Glasgow was assessed to be the worst city in Scotland to work remotely from with lack of green space and low air quality accounting for the low ranking.

The report also found that a fifth of people want to spend more time working from home when the pandemic is over and one in six employees want to continue working from home full time when life returns to normal.

Almost a fifth of people surveyed said they have already moved or want to relocate due to the benefits of working from home.

People generally want to move from cities and larger towns to smaller towns and villages with only one in nine people currently living in a city of more than 500,000 residents, wishing to remain living in their current city in the future.

Broadband expert at Uswitch.com, Adelana Carty said: “The pandemic has turned our working routines upside down and given many of us a taste for what our lives could be like if we worked from home on a more permanent basis. Unsurprisingly, this has resulted in millions of people dreaming of ditching the rat race and moving away from the big city.”

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