COVID-19: working from home development Germany 2020

According to a survey conducted by the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), 42 percent of responding companies in the manufacturing industry stated that the organizational process changes that they were forced to implement during the COVID-19 pandemic made them realize that more tasks could be carried out from home than previously expected. In the information economy sector, more than half of businesses agreed with the same statement.

Do you agree with the following statements about working from home during the pandemic?

Characteristic	Information economy	Manufacturing industry
There are more tasks that can be done from home than previously expected	53%	42%
We expect to use more remote work as a result of the crisis	46%	30%
We've had to make short-term investments in new technologies to facilitate remote work	33%	29%

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Release date

August 2020

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Region

Germany

Survey time period

June 2020

Number of respondents

1,800 companies in the information economy and manufacturing industry

Supplementary notes

The source does not provide the original wording of the question posed during the survey. The wording of the question chosen for this statistic may therefore differ slightly from the original.

According to the source, the figures in this statistic are based on the ZEW Business Survey in the Information Economy 2020. Further information about this survey is available on the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) website.

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