A quarter of people now want to work fully remotely so they can live anywhere in the world while working for U

Working from home has become one of the key battlegrounds in the culture wars - and now almost one in four people believe they should even be allowed to WFA (work from abroad).

Researchers found 23 per cent of people want to work fully remotely so that they can live anywhere in the world while working for companies based in the UK.

Generation Z are the keenest to re-locate - with 44 per cent of those aged 18 to 24 saying working from home could be extended to working from abroad.

Millennials are the next keenest with 35 per cent of 25 to 39-year-olds believing if they are allowed to work from home they should be allowed to relocate internationally.

Researchers found 23 per cent of people want to work fully remotely so that they can live anywhere in the world while working for companies based in the UK (stock image)

Those aged 40 to 55 - Generation X - and are less keen with 27 believing they should be allowed to work from abroad.

And the Baby Boomer generation - those aged over 55 - shun the idea, with just 17 per cent attracted to it.

The International money app Zing asked 2,000 UK adults if they believed the working from home culture should be extended to allow them to work from abroad.

James Allen, founder and CEO of Zing, said: 'Our research shows that opinions on remote working internationally are evolving across all age groups in the UK.

'Accelerated by Covid-19 lockdowns, employees are increasingly exploring opportunities to work remotely across the globe.

'Remote working presents exciting opportunities including the chance to immerse yourself in different cultures over an extended period.'

Generation Z are the keenest to re-locate - with 44 per cent of those aged 18 to 24 saying working from home could be extended to working from abroad (stock image)

A Mail on Sunday investigation in February found the NHS has allowed hundreds of staff, including senior consultants and managers, to work thousands of miles from the UK.

Freedom of Information requests showed staff were working in places as far flung as Australia and Japan with at least 335 NHS staff from 33 trusts being allowed to work abroad in the past two years.

The real number is certain to be much higher as 200 trusts and bodies did not respond to the FoI requests and 35 said they did not hold such data.

In September last year, it emerged 1,350 council staff have also been granted permission to work from overseas following Freedom of Information requests by the Taxpayers' Alliance.

The number jumped from 73 approvals in 2021-22 to 440 in 2021-22.

It then surged to more than 700 last year as the remote-working revolution took hold.

One local authority granted 300 requests over the three-year period.

Overall researchers found that more than half - 62 per cent of Generation Z - now believe at least a part of their working life will now be spent abroad.

And 17 per cent across all ages said they do not want to be restricted by their company to only working in the UK.

Spain is the top choice for people who want to work overseas with 40 per cent of all age groups saying they would like to work there.

Millennials are the next keenest with 35 per cent of 25 to 39-year-olds believing if they are allowed to work from home they should be allowed to relocate internationally (stock image)

Canada also ranked highly with a third - 33 per cent - saying they would like to work there, with the United States on 31 per cent.

Australia came fourth on 30 per cent with Italy joint fifth on 28 per cent along with New Zealand.

According to the latest data from the Office of National Statistics 16 per cent of UK working adults worked from home from September 2022 to January last year (2023).

Before the Covid-19 pandemic, around one in eight working adults - around 12 per cent - worked from home.

London workers reported the highest level of hybrid working with four out of ten working both from home and travelling to work.