The experience of remote working is to be the subject of a second national survey carried out by NUI Galway and the Western Development Commission.
The first phase of the survey was carried out in April, in the immediate aftermath of the national lockdown - and revealed that 83% of the 7,200 employees who responded wanted to continue working from home either fully or part of the time.
Professor Alma McCarthy of NUIG's JE Cairnes School of Business and Economics noted that when the first research was carried out in April, it was an "emergency" situation where many employees still did not have fully equipped work stations at home, and were also struggling to manage children who were home from school.