Is the construction industry prepared to work from home?

UK construction and civil engineering is one of the least prepared industries to work from home, figures released by Leesman show. Leesman has surveyed more than 700,000 employees worldwide. Of the 19,906 of those working in the UK construction and civil engineering space within its index, 49% have no home working experience, compared with 52% of overall respondents globally. Many British businesses have released Covid-19 contingency plans including compulsory home working policies, and some have begun to close sites and ban external visitors. As the UK government now asks even mildly sick people to stay home, leading researchers have suggested British workers who can work from home should be advised to do so, regardless of whether they are symptomatic, to reduce their risk of contracting coronavirus and fuelling the outbreak by spreading it to others.