{"id":10623,"date":"2026-06-15T12:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T12:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=10623"},"modified":"2026-06-15T12:01:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T12:01:00","slug":"eurostat-only-1-3-of-employees-in-romania-worked-from-home-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=10623","title":{"rendered":"Eurostat: Only 1.3% of employees in Romania worked from home in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Roughly 1.3% of employees in Romania worked from home in 2025, defined as carrying out productive activity at home for at least half of the working days during a four-week reference period, according to Eurostat data cited by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/business\/2026\/06\/12\/working-from-home-in-europe-why-your-chances-vary-so-much-depending-on-where-you-live\">Euronews English<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The percentage of people working remotely varied greatly among EU states. In Finland and Ireland,\u00a0approximately one in five employees\u00a0worked from home\u00a0(20.5% and 19.2%, respectively), which represents more than double the EU average of 8.8%. No other European country records a remote work rate higher than 14%.<\/p>\n<p>Next came Belgium (13.2%), Germany (13%), and Malta (12.5%).\u00a0Sweden, Estonia, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, France, and Austria also have rates above 10%, meaning that more than one in ten workers usually work from home.<\/p>\n<p>At the other end of the scale, Romania (1.3%), Bulgaria (1.4%), North Macedonia (1.9%), Greece (2.3%), and Italy (2.7%) all record rates below 3%. Remote work remains below 5% in several other Southern and Eastern European countries, including Serbia, T\u00fcrkiye, Hungary, Cyprus, Croatia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRemote work has become a permanent feature of labour markets, but its scale depends largely on the types of jobs available in a country and on how companies manage their employees,\u201d Cevat Giray Aksoy, deputy director of research at the EBRD, told Euronews Business. According to him, the percentage of remote work in a country depends on the number of jobs in information and communication technology (ICT), finance, and other office-based occupations that allow for more remote work. The workplace culture also matters, as remote work requires greater autonomy for employees.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Eurostat data indicate a clear regional divide, with working from home generally more common in Northern and North-Western Europe and much less common in Eastern and South-Eastern Europe. The United Kingdom is not included in Eurostat data, but separate research suggests it has the highest remote work rate in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>According to Aksoy, working from home saves approximately 72 minutes per day on average across countries, and employees allocate a significant part of this saved time to work and family care.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"mailto:radu@romania-insider.com\">radu@romania-insider.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>(Photo source:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dreamstime.com\/\">Mariia Boiko|Dreamstime.com<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roughly 1.3% of employees in Romania worked from home in 2025, defined as carrying out productive activity at home for at least half of the working days during a four-week reference period, according to Eurostat data cited by Euronews English.\u00a0 The percentage of people working remotely varied greatly among EU states. In Finland and Ireland,\u00a0approximately [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}