This semester the Adecco Monitor of Opportunities and Job Satisfactionfrom the Adecco Group, analyzes in depth the degree of satisfaction of Spanish workers and the opportunities in the labor market.
For the preparation of the report, five fundamental areas in the work environment of people are taken into account, such as remuneration, job security, employment opportunities and professional development, the reconciliation between personal and professional life and labor conflict.
In total, 16 different subvariables are analysed. In this second semester installment of the Monitor we focus on the sections of reconciliation and development opportunities.
Reconciliation: less teleworking and more part-time
There are already seven consecutive quarters in which the number of teleworkers in Spain is reduced in the year-on-year comparison. In the fourth quarter of 2022, there were 2.56 million people who worked at least occasionally from home, a figure that is 6.5% lower than that of a year earlier. The proportion of teleworkers in the total number of employed persons, taking the moving average of four quarters as a reference, fell 1.7 percentage points in the year-on-year comparison, to 12.7%. It is the lowest data since June 2020.
Before the pandemic, the number of teleworkers was 1.64 million. That number more than doubled, reaching a maximum of 3.55 million in the second quarter of 2020 (that of home confinement). That there are now 2.56 million people who work at least occasionally from home means that approximately half of the teleworkers that have emerged from the pandemic returned to work exclusively in person.
The same can be seen through the proportion of teleworkers in the total employed: the current 12.7% is halfway between the 8.3% at the end of 2019 and the maximum of 16.2% in the first quarter. of 2021 (remember that we work with the moving average of 4 quarters, which is why the peak of the second quarter of 2020 exerts its influence until three quarters later).
Today, teleworking is fundamentally a phenomenon in Madrid and, to a lesser extent, in Catalonia. Despite the Community of Madrid houses 15.6% of the total employed, has 23.8% of all teleworkers from the country. Catalonia, with 17.2% of the employed in Spain, has 19.3% of all its teleworkers. Thus, between both autonomies, they have 32.8% of all employed, but they reach 43.1% of the group of Spanish teleworkers.
Cantabria and Navarra experience increases
Nine autonomous communities show a year-on-year reduction in the number of teleworkers. Extremadura (-29.2% year-on-year), the Balearic Islands (-25.7%) and the Community of Madrid (-14.6%) show the most pronounced cuts. The decline in Madrid, where seven consecutive quarters of falls have also accumulated, suggests that the decline in teleworking may not have ended.
However, there are also examples of significant increases in the number of people working at least occasionally from home. These are the cases of Cantabria (+32.1%), Navarra (+11.8%) and, to a lesser extent, the Basque Country (+8.4%) and the Region of Murcia (+6.9%).
