Only 2.5% of Romanian employees work from home, the second lowest percentage in the EU (Eurostat)

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Only 2.5% of Romanian employees work from home, the second-lowest percentage in the EU, after Bulgaria, while the European average is 12.3%, according to data published Monday by Eurostat.

The social distancing measures that were introduced in response to the COVID-19 pandemic have forced many people to work from home. In 2020, 12.3% of employees aged 15-64 in the EU typically worked from home, although this share has remained around 5% over the last decade.

In previous years, the share of self-employed workers who reported working from home was consistently higher than the share of employees in the same situation. However, the gap became smaller in 2020, as the share of employees who usually work from home increased from 3.2% in 2019 to 10.8%, while the share for the self-employed increased to lower extent: from 19.4% in 2019 to 22% in 2020.

More women than men work from home

There are different trends depending on the age and gender of the workers when it comes to working from home. In 2020, a higher share of women (13.2%) reported that they usually work from home than men (11.5%).

Compared to other age groups, younger people are less likely to work from home in 2020: only 6.3% of those between the ages of 15 and 24 reported that they usually work from home, compared to 13% among those aged 25-49 and 12.4% of those aged 50-64.

Countries with most people working from home are: Finland, Luxembourg, and Ireland

Finland tops the list of EU Member States for work from home, with 25.1% of the employed people usually working from home in 2020. Finland was followed by Luxembourg (23.1%) and Ireland (21.5% ).

In contrast, the lowest shares of employees working from home were reported in Bulgaria (1.2%), Romania (2.5%), Croatia (3.1%), and Hungary (3.6%).

Economedia wrote exclusively that the end of 2020 shows a record number of telework employees in Romania: over 300,000 in the private sector and over 31,000 in the public sector. This style of work was adopted by employers especially with the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic.

Translated from Romanian by Service For Life S.R.L.

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