German workers can do a lot of work from home compared to 17 European countries, according to the Ifo economic research institute.

Germany ranks second in Europe with an average of one teleworking day per week, while the UK surpasses it with 1.5 “home office” days per week.

Compared to 34 countries in the world, Germany is surpassed by Canada, with 1.7 days of teleworking per week, the United States, with 1.4 days; and Australia, with 1.3 days per week. The average is just under 0.9 days.

In Europe, Finland and the Netherlands also have around one day a week, but Germany is only a few decimal places behind. In Austria, the average is 0.8 days; in Poland and Italy, 0.7; and in France and Denmark, 0.6 days of teleworking per week.

The study, which is based on an employee survey, found especially little work from home in South Korea, at 0.4 days a week, and Japan and Greece, at 0.5 days.

For Ifo researcher Mathias Dolls, there is no simple explanation for the differences between countries. The expert considers that the sectoral mix of the countries, the degree of digitization, but also the experiences with closures due to quarantines during the coronavirus could play a role in this trend.

“We see that employees value the opportunity to work from home,” Dolls said. “However, there is a gap between the number of teleworking days desired by employees and those expected by employers.”

On average, globally, workers want about 0.8 more days of “home office” than their employers plan. In Germany, this difference is somewhat smaller, at 0.6 days. On average, the around 2,500 respondents in Germany would like to have around 1.8 working days from home.

For the study, more than 42,000 full-time employees from around the world were surveyed in the period from April to May 2023.

Source: dpa

(Reference image source: Christin Hume, Unsplash)

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