The National Observatory of Technology and Society (ONTSI) has presented the report Teleworking data 2022, which shows the evolution of teleworking in the Spanish population in recent quarters. It takes into account factors such as frequency, age, place of residence and gender. In addition, it compares the implementation of this modality between Spain and the rest of the countries of the European Union.
Technological advances have allowed this for a long time, but the restrictions as a result of the pandemic accelerated the spread of teleworking in the workplace. Regarding how it has evolved in recent months, among the most noteworthy data in the report, it stands out that teleworking has been gradually reduced in 2022, with a slight rebound in the last quarter. Thus, between 2021 and 2022, it has dropped from 13.6% (2,742,000 people) to 12.5% (2,563,000 people) and it has done so for both men and women, closing the gap between both sexes in this indicator. Currently, 12.6% of women (1,191,000 workers) telework compared to 12.5% of men (1,372,000 workers).
In relation to regular teleworking, that is, the one that is carried out on more than half of the days in which work is done, it has fallen from 7.9% (1,587,000 people) to 6.4% (1,311,000 people). . The casual modality, less than half of the days in which one works, has grown from 5.7% (1,155,000 people) to 6.1% (1,252,000 people).
Teleworking according to age
Considering the age of the workers, the report highlights that teleworking is more widespread in people over 25 years of age. So, workers between the ages of 35 and 54 are the ones that telework the most (13.5%), followed by people aged 55 and over (12.1%) and those between 25 and 34 years old (11.9%), far from the youngest between 16 and 24 years (6.1%).
The age it also influences when doing regular or occasional teleworking, the former being more widespread among age groups up to 44 years of age, while occasional teleworking is the same or more frequent after 45 years of age.
Besides, the self-employed (with 26.4%), they almost triple the wage earners in teleworking (10%). In this sense, a decrease is observed both in habitual and occasional teleworking in both types of employment relationship.
The Community of Madrid, the region where people telework the most
With 19.1% of the employed population working remotely occasionally or regularly, the Community of Madrid leads the list of autonomous communities, followed by Catalonia (14.1%) and the Valencian Community (11.9%) in a period in which the percentage of teleworking has been reduced in 12 of the 19 autonomous communities and cities.
On the other hand, the adoption of teleworking is distributed unevenly between European countries. According to the latest data published by Eurostat, in 2021, with an average of 24%, the Netherlands is the Member State with the highest implementation (53.8%), followed by Sweden (46.2%) and Luxembourg (45.1% ). Spain is below the European average with 15.3%.
If we differentiate between habitual and occasional work, Ireland is in first place for the habitual modality (32%), while the Netherlands does so in the casual modality (31.3%).
