September 15 () –
Teleworking has become established in Spain with formulas that currently combine in-person work with remote work, and its numbers, although far from the high levels seen during the pandemic, continue to show that this type of work is here to stay.
On the occasion of World Teleworking Day, which is celebrated this Monday, the employment portal InfoJobs has carried out an overview of teleworking in Spain using its own data and surveys and the Active Population Survey (EPA) published by the National Institute of Statistics (INE).
According to this report, the profile of the worker in Spain corresponds to that of a person between 25 and 44 years old, resident in cities with 100,000 inhabitants or more, with university studies, income of more than 3,000 euros per month and employed in the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) sector.
According to the EPA data for the second quarter, 7.6% of employed people in Spain work remotely on a regular basis (more than half of the days), while 7% do so occasionally, which means that more than 3.1 million people work remotely, the equivalent of 15% of the working population.
“Although the current figures for teleworking are lower than during the pandemic (16.2% in 2020), after the boom and subsequent return to normality, a change in trend is observed, with a slight increase in the percentage of employed people who telework,” InfoJobs stresses.
Compared to the European average, where, on average, 9% of the population works remotely, according to Eurostat data, Spain is slightly below (7%), while countries such as Finland (22%) and Ireland (21%) are the leaders in this type of work.
According to a survey carried out by InfoJobs, one in four people (24%) works remotely in Spain, either fully or partially, which represents an increase of two points compared to February last year (22%), but far from the figures for February 2021, when 31% said they work remotely.
The employment portal explains that the predominant work model has stabilised towards a hybrid format, where employees go to the office between three and four days a week.
14 OUT OF EVERY 100 JOB VACANCIES OFFER TELEWORKING
This year, InfoJobs has published 232,848 job vacancies that offer teleworking. This figure is equivalent to 14% of the vacancies that the employment portal has published in 2024. “In the first eight months of this year, as many teleworking positions have been offered as in the whole of 2020, in which the pandemic boosted this type of work that, until then, was practically residual,” the report highlights.
The categories with the most vacancies for this type of employment are sales and marketing and IT and telecommunications. Specifically, 22% of vacancies in sales and marketing and 70% in IT and telecommunications offer teleworking, ahead of sectors such as legal (56%), education and training (47%) or finance and banking (43%).
According to INE data, teleworking is more common in cities with 100,000 inhabitants or more and in provincial capitals, but the size of the household is not an issue that makes a significant difference when it comes to using this type of work.
Thus, in households with one or two members, 15% of people work remotely, a figure almost identical to that of those who live in households with three members (13%) or four or more (14%).
Gender is also not a determining factor in defining teleworking, since the percentage of women who telework (15%) is just two points higher than that of men (13%).
As regards socioeconomic characteristics, the highest percentage of teleworking is recorded among employed people with university education (28%).
SAVING TIME ON TRAVEL, MAIN ADVANTAGE
The highest percentages of teleworking are recorded among self-employed workers, with full-time work (19%), technicians and mid-level professionals (29%) and whose monthly net income (of the entire household) exceeds 3,000 euros (25%).
And within this profile, there is a subgroup, that of the ICT sector, in which up to 61% of employed people work at some point from their own home.
For more than half of employed people (53%), saving time on commuting is the main advantage of teleworking, followed by convenience (51%) and improved work-life balance, also with 51%.
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