More than 14% (14,2%) of the employed population was teleworking in the third quarter, a figure that represents 37,7% less than between April and June, according to data released today by the National Statistics Institute (INE).
According to the INE, in total, 681,9 thousand people indicated that they had exercised their profession always or almost always at home in the reference week or in the previous three weeks, 37,7% less (412,5 thousand) than in the previous quarter.
Of these, 539,6 thousand people (79,1%) indicated that the main reason for having worked at home was due to the covid-19 pandemic.
“Among those who worked always or almost always from home, 94,5% (644,4 thousand) did so using information and communication technologies (ICT). In other words, they were telecommuting. That estimate corresponded to 13,4% of the total employed population and decreased by 37,9% (393,6 thousand) in relation to the previous quarter ”.
As observed in the previous quarter, there were no major differences in the average number of weekly hours worked between those who worked from home (37 hours) and those who worked outside the home (38 hours), figures excluding the employed population absent, indicates INE.
Among the employed population that did not work at home in the reference week or in the previous three, 236,7 thousand people (6,3%) were absent from work during this period, 27,5% (65,0 thousand) of whom were due to the covid-19 pandemic, a figure of 86,8% (426,5 thousand) lower than that observed in the second quarter of 2020.
The results were obtained in the employment survey on “Work from home”, which aims to assess the impact of the covid-19 pandemic on the dynamics of the labor market, namely on the evolution of work from home following the containment measures of that pandemic.
The target population of this module is the employed population, estimated at 4,8 million people.
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