People usually working from home Europe 2022

As of 2022, 10.2 percent of employed people in the European Union usually worked from home. This share of home-office workers varied widely between European countries, with a quarter of Irish workers usually working from home, compared to only 1.4 percent of Romanian workers. It was in general more common for women to work from home usually than men, however, this was notably reversed in some countries, such as Ireland where almost 26 percent of men regularly worked from home.

Percentage of employed people usually working from home in Europe 2022, by country

Characteristic	Total	Female	Male
European Union	10.2%	10.8%	9.6%
Euro area	11.4%	12.1%	10.8%
Ireland	25.3%	24.9%	25.7%
Finland	23.1%	23.7%	22.5%
Sweden	18.1%	18.3%	17.8%
Netherlands	17.8%	17.8%	17.9%
Luxembourg	17.7%	18.8%	16.8%
Belgium	16.4%	18%	15.1%
Germany	14.5%	14.4%	14.6%
Austria	12.9%	13.5%	12.3%
Estonia	12.4%	14.4%	10.5%
France	12.4%	14%	10.9%
Denmark	11.8%	11.5%	12.2%
Malta	11.8%	15.3%	9.2%
Switzerland	10.7%	11.1%	10.3%
Latvia	8.8%	10%	7.6%
Slovenia	8.5%	9.3%	7.9%
Norway	8.2%	7.2%	9.1%
Portugal	7.7%	7.6%	7.9%
Spain	7.6%	8.2%	7.1%
Iceland	6.6%	6.6%	6.6%
Czechia	6.3%	6.9%	5.7%
Lithuania	6.1%	6.7%	5.5%
Italy	5.2%	5.8%	4.7%
Slovakia	5.1%	4.7%	5.4%
Poland	4.9%	5.2%	4.6%
Croatia	4.6%	5.7%	3.6%
Cyprus	4.6%	5.1%	4.1%
Hungary	2.8%	3.2%	2.4%
Greece	2.5%	3.3%	1.8%
Bulgaria	1.6%	1.9%	1.3%
Romania	1.4%	1.8%	1.1%

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Release date

April 2023

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Region

Europe, EU

Survey time period

2022

Age group

15-64 years

Supplementary notes

“Usually working at home” means doing at home any productive work related to the current job for at least half of the days worked in a reference period of four weeks

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