The 'equivalent to an 8% pay rise' in the UK loosely matches the after-tax cost of an annual rail ticket on an hour commute or longer. That's a ticket in the r

The 'equivalent to an 8% pay rise' in the UK loosely matches the after-tax cost of an annual rail ticket on an hour commute or longer. That's a ticket in the region of £6000 per annum, which is about £10,000 of gross salary. So not doing that commute and working from home is quite a bit of money. And some anec-data: my former employer, after 3 years of WFH and a couple of non-London offices that they embraced with out-sourcing the work "since we're all remote anyway", has told people to come back to the London office at least 3 days a week. Almost all of my former colleagues I'm in contact with have told me they're now looking for new jobs with WFH.