According to a new Eurostat analysis, during the COVID-19 crisis, a large proportion of employees was faced with changing patterns of work – including working from home. In 2019, 5.5% of employees aged 20–64 in the EU usually worked from home. The impact of the COVID-19 crisis was apparent as this share more than doubled in 2020 to 12.3%. To a lesser extent, there was a further increase of 1.2 percentage points in the share of people usually working from home in 2021, as it reached 13.5%.
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