The leading international cities for return to work

Workers are returning to the office at different levels across major global cities, a new report has found.

Despite predictions during the pandemic of a home-based employment revolution, current trends show the office is far from obsolete, according to the research by UK think tank Centre for Cities.

Click through to find the leading cities for employees returning to work, including one in Australia.

Workers in Canada's most populous city are the least reluctant to return to the office, averaging 2.7 days per week.

This is figure was a 1.3 day decline since the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic.

London workers have plenty of transport options for commuting to the office, such as the Tube underground, bike paths and an extensive bus network, but despite these they remain reluctant to return full time.

Days spent in the office for employees in the British capital average 2.7 days. More younger workers prefer to make the commute, the research found.

About 50 per cent of employers in Sydney are concerned return-to-office directives would result in workers quitting, according to the research. The issue was recently in the spotlight when the New South Wales government asked thousands of its employees to attend the office four days per week.

Full time and part time workers in Sydney work from the office an average of 2.8 days per week.

American employers were among the most strident in demanding workers return to the office, but despite this workers in New York average 3.1 days every day, about the same level as the period before the pandemic.

Almost one-in-three workers in the financial hub of Manhattan attend the office full time.

The vast majority of workers in the city state surveyed before the pandemic said they attended the office full time, but since 2020 that number has fallen.

They now go into the office 3.2 days per week.

Paris comes out top of the global cities for workers attending the office at 3.5 days per week.

Experts say the French capital's top spot is helped by laws compelling employers to subsidise staff travel costs to the workplace.