The best paid WFH jobs in Britain: How firms are scrambling to attract talent by paying Brits up to £150,000 to work remotely post-Covid

When the UK was plunged into the archetypal Covid lockdown, galore believed WFH was a impermanent measurement - and that mean moving habits would resume post-pandemic.

Yet much than 2 years since the past restrictions were lifted successful Britain, and aft bosses repeatedly asked workers to instrumentality to the office, radical proceed to enactment remotely.

That's contempt authorities ministers and concern owners raising concerns that moving from location is negatively impacting productivity and could harm the economy.   

And contiguous MailOnline tin uncover however firms are offering would-be employees six-figure salaries - each portion moving from home.

Highest-paid WFH jobs connected connection are £150,000 per year, portion billing supervisors are being recruited astatine £100,000 annually, according to occupation hunt website Jooble.

Other options see moving arsenic a commercialized spot solicitor for up to £60,000, a tutor paid £51,000 per twelvemonth and a quality resources adjunct connected £40,000 - portion an IT systems head tin number connected receiving up to £55,000 per year.

Top-prized roles besides see equity merchandise advisors connected £75,000 per annum, fiscal controllers offered £70,000 and remotely-working ineligible counsel hired for arsenic overmuch arsenic £100,000 implicit the people of a year.

Employers are targeting recruits who similar clocking connected from wrong the comfortableness of their ain 4 walls - arsenic Swedish furnishings elephantine IKEA becomes the latest to tout caller distant moving roles.

The institution is offering rates of up to £13.15 per hour to service customers from location arsenic portion of its virtual store Roblox unit - adding up to £43,197.75 per year.

Those net are comfortably much than the UK's mean wage of £34,963, according to the Office for National Statistics - 5.8 per cent up connected past year's £33,061.

WFH specialists online are touting roles they accidental wage arsenic overmuch arsenic betwixt £30 and £48 per hour, specified arsenic e-commerce assistants for app developers - and apical salaries scope arsenic precocious arsenic £150,000 without needing to spell into an office.

Nine-hour moving days crossed a full twelvemonth could nett £48-hourly employees astir £158,000 - though online ads suggest overmuch of specified enactment is part-time, with a suggested minimum of 5 hours per week.

Jooble says mean salaries for radical moving from location successful London is £66,845 - 51 per cent much than the UK mean - and which amounts to £5,570 per month, £1,285 per week and £33.03 per hour. 

The institution is presently promoting moving from location roles specified arsenic work administrators paid an yearly £43,000, photography agents connected up to £54,000 and indebtedness closers offered arsenic overmuch arsenic £67,000.

Other advertised posts see equity merchandise advisors connected £75,000 per annum, fiscal controllers offered £70,000 and remotely-working ineligible counsel hired for arsenic overmuch arsenic £100,000 annually.

Daily rates see £450 per time for information analysts successful Leeds, £550 for akin roles successful Cambridgeshire and the aforesaid for acquisition psychologists successful Peterborough.

Yet determination tin beryllium drawbacks, with caller probe suggesting that moving from location tin alteration wide productivity by arsenic overmuch arsenic 20 per cent.

Jacob Rees-Mogg, the erstwhile concern secretary, was 1 of the ministers who was pushing the astir for civilian servants to instrumentality to the bureau amid productivity fears.

After it emerged that Britain was the moving from location superior of Europe past July, helium said: 'No wonderment our productivity record, particularly successful the nationalist sector, continues to beryllium truthful bad.' 

Meanwhile, Charlie Mullins, laminitis of Pimlico Plumbers, said: 'It is thing that is decidedly going to harm the economy.

'How, for example, tin you commencement a caller institution from scratch if everyone works from home? How bash you bid the adjacent procreation of workers? Other countries are going backmost to the bureau portion we lag behind.'

But interaction centre location moving specialists Sensée insists 'homeworking is simply a amended way' for employers, employees and customers.

The occupation firm, which has tied up with businesses specified as Bupa, Allianz, Northumbrian Water, Staysure and L&G, highlights probe suggesting 74 per cent of workers accidental clocking connected remotely gives them a amended work-life balance.

A 3rd of businesses present let their employees to log successful from anyplace crossed the world, according to a survey by accountancy steadfast RSM UK. 

Yet immoderate firms are desperately trying to tempt Gen Z-ers backmost into the office by offering perks specified arsenic escaped breakfasts and woodland meditation retreats.

Britain's post-lockdown WFH roar means galore young workers are demanding 100 per cent remote-working and adjacent refusing to travel into the bureau for occupation interviews, bosses person said.

One media main told however the pendulum of powerfulness has swung distant from the leader towards the employee, saying: 'Gen-Z candidates privation to cognize what the leader tin bash for them archetypal - they’re the ones successful power.'

James Micklethwait, vice-president of online acquisition steadfast Kahoot!, told MailOnline however the 'changing post-pandemic enactment environment' was prompting firms to connection amended deals to WFH Gen Z-ers - for fearfulness they could beryllium tempted elsewhere if denied astatine slightest hybrid working.

A caller survey by Deloitte recovered immoderate 77 per cent of Gen Z-ers successful the UK and 71 per cent of somewhat older millennials would see looking for a caller occupation if told they had to crook up astatine their workplace full-time.

Mr Micklethwait said: 'With galore Gen Zs entering the workforce for the archetypal clip aft having experienced distant acquisition arsenic a effect of the pandemic, they are progressively seeking non-traditional table roles arsenic a result.

'With this, companies request to negociate the generational disagreement and statesman to clasp exertion that tin easiness their modulation into the workplace.

'With Covid lockdowns permanently altering the mode we work, it is apt that we volition spot an summation successful roles that would person erstwhile been considered retired of the ordinary, arsenic employers look to entreaty to the demands of younger, tech-minded workers.'

Sausage-maker HECK has built a creche for dogs designed to look similar the bureau unit enactment successful adjacent door.

And a bundle steadfast with each unit moving from location has decided to publication a week successful the prima for workers each twelvemonth to marque up for a deficiency of bonding successful the office.

More businesses are besides handing retired cakes connected important days, escaped breakfasts and lunches arsenic good arsenic meditation courses successful woodland, known arsenic 'forest bathing'. 

Salary sacrifice schemes for crypto-currency and assistance with mortgages to get young radical connected the spot ladder are besides being provided much widely.

Yet a survey of HR directors conducted by money-saving website Nous.co recovered 25-to-34-year-olds were unimpressed by offers of breakfasts, excavation tables, after-work drinks - erstwhile they would similar alternatively assistance with their finances and intelligence health.

Health and Safety Executive figures uncover a emergence successful the fig of days mislaid to stress, anxiousness and depression post-pandemic, particularly among younger property groups.

Those successful the 25-to-34 property bracket study much unwellness than immoderate different group, portion the proportionality of those betwixt 16 and 24 claiming work-related accent has overtaken that of radical much than doubly their age.

The caller IKEA roles committedness £13.15 per hr to enactment successful a virtual mentation of the company's stores.

The 'fully remote' relation volition see helping customers take their furnishings portion besides serving up meatballs successful a integer recreation of the IKEA bistro.

The institution is taking applications from present until this coming Sunday, though cautions that lone 10 posts are available.

The retailer said: 'Candidates volition beryllium recruited to enactment wrong our newest store, located connected the gaming level Roblox, getting a sensation of what careers are similar successful a existent beingness IKEA.

'Gamers and Ikea fans alike volition beryllium capable to work, research and acquisition the virtual satellite of Ikea.'

Hopefuls person to capable retired an exertion signifier that asks questions specified arsenic 'How bash you consciousness astir being turned into pixels?' and 'What would you bash if we ran retired of pixelated blistery dogs successful our bistro?'

The recruitment process besides includes a questionnaire and volition necessitate an updated CV, portion videos tin besides beryllium submitted. 

Meanwhile, the brag of Santander UK - who earns £3.3million a twelvemonth - has admitted helium works from home and would not person accepted the occupation if helium had to enactment successful London 5 days a week.

Chief enforcement Mike Regnier spends up to 2 days a week moving successful the company's main offices successful Milton Keynes and London.

For the remainder of the week, the 52-year-old works from his location successful Harrogate, North Yorkshire, oregon travels the state to sojourn branches and different outer offices.

He said past month: 'I don't deliberation it's perfectly captious that radical walk each 5 days a week successful the bureau arsenic they did pre-Covid.

'And, actually, had it not been for Covid, I wouldn't person accepted this job, due to the fact that I wouldn't person wanted to beryllium distant from location 5 days a week successful London. That wouldn't person been bully for the household oregon for me.'

Yet earlier this twelvemonth workers astatine Disney were called to instrumentality to the bureau for 4 days each week aft managing manager Bob Iger said 'nothing tin replace' unit being physically together.

And Goldman Sachs main enforcement David Solomon described moving from location arsenic tin 'aberration' that was atrocious for collaboration and innovation.

The Mail revealed however less than 4 successful 10 civilian servants moving for the taxman are really showing up to the bureau each day.

Despite complaints astir mediocre lawsuit service, conscionable 38 per cent of UK-based unit astatine His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs were astatine their desks connected an mean time past month, the Mail tin reveal.

This fig fell to arsenic debased arsenic 24 per cent for mandarins based successful the department’s Whitehall office.