The teleworking model has become established in our country with formulas that currently combine presence with the remote work and their numbers, although far from the high levels recorded during the pandemic, continue to demonstrate that this type of work is here to stay. Specifically, the profile of the worker in Spain corresponds to that of a person from 25 and 44 years oldresiding in cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants, with university education, income above 3,000 euros monthly and employed in the information and communications technology (ICT) sector.
According to EPA data for the second quarter, the 7.6% of employees in Spain telework regularly (more than half of the days), while 7% do so occasionally, which means that more than 3.1 million people work remotely, equivalent to 15% of the working population.
On the occasion of World Telework Day, celebrated this Monday, the job portal InfoJobs has prepared a report on telework in Spain using its own data and surveys and the Labor Force Survey (EPA) published by the National Institute of Statistics (INE).
“Even if the teleworking figures are currently lower than those of the period pandemic (16.2% in 2020), after the boom and the return to normal that followed, we are seeing a change in trend, with a slight increase in the percentage of employees who telework,” InfoJobs emphasizes.
Compared to Europe
Compared to the European average, where, on average, a 9% Among the population working 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 the survey conducted by InfoJobs, one in four people (24%) telework in Spain totally or partially, which represents an increase of two points compared to February last year (22%), but far from the figures of February 2021, when 31% declared that they were teleworking.
The job portal explains that the predominant work model has stabilized towards a hybrid formatwhere employees come to the office three to four days a week.
14 out of 100 vacancies in teleworking
This year, InfoJobs has published 232,848 job offers offering telework. This figure is equivalent to 14% of the job offers published by the job portal in 2024. “In the first eight months of this year, as many telework positions have been offered as in the whole of 2020, in which the pandemic has favored this modality of work that, until that moment, was practically residual,” the report highlights.
The categories with the most vacancies for this type of job are: commercial and sales and IT and telecommunications. Specifically, 22% of vacancies in the commercial and business sector and 70% in computer science and telecommunications offer teleworking, ahead of sectors such as legal (56%), education and training (47%) or finance and banking (43%).
INE data suggest that teleworking is more widely implemented in cities 100,000 inhabitantsor more and in provincial capitals, but household size is not a significant difference issue when 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 the definition of telework, since the percentage of women who telework (15%) is only two points higher than that of men (13%).
Regarding socio-economic characteristics, the highest percentage of teleworking is recorded among employed people with university education (28%).
Save time on travel
The highest percentages of teleworking are recorded among workers in own accountwith full-time employment (19%), technicians and intermediate professionals (29%) and whose net monthly income (for 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 from their own home at any given time.
For more than half of employees (53%), saving time when travelling is the main advantage of teleworking, followed by convenience (51%) and improved work-life balance, also with 51%.
