Who works from home

Name: Who works from home, 2025
Creator: Civitascope
Published: 2026-11-01T16:32:49+00:00
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Topic: Work and income

In Finland, 20.5% of employed people usually work from home, against 1.3% in Romania.

In 2025, 8.8% of employed people aged 15 to 64 in the EU usually worked from home, at least half of their working time.

Figures for:: 2025.
Covers:: the whole year.
New data:: once a year.
Dataset updated:: 30 October 2026.

27 / 27 EU countries ranked

The ranking

In 2025, the share of employed people who usually work from home ranged from 1.3% in Romania to 20.5% in Finland.

Share of employed people who usually work from home, %

2025 · aged 15 to 64, employed people

0510152025%

Rank 1: Finland, 20.5 %

Rank 2: Ireland, 19.2 %

Rank 3: Belgium, 13.2 %

Rank 4: Germany, 13.0 %

Rank 5: Malta, 12.5 %

Rank 6: Sweden, 12.4 %

Rank 7: Estonia, 11.6 %

Rank 8: Netherlands, 11.3 %

Rank 9: Luxembourg, 11.2 %

Rank 10: France, 11.1 %

Rank 11: Austria, 10.8 %

Rank 12: Portugal, 8.9 %

Rank 13: Latvia, 8.5 %

Rank 14: Spain, 7.9 %

Rank 15: Denmark, 7.6 %

Rank 16: Slovenia, 7.3 %

Rank 16: Slovakia, 7.3 %

Rank 18: Czechia, 6.6 %

Rank 19: Poland, 6.1 %

Rank 20: Lithuania, 5.1 %

Rank 21: Croatia, 4.7 %

Rank 22: Cyprus, 4.2 %

Rank 23: Hungary, 4.1 %

Rank 24: Italy, 2.7 %

Rank 25: Greece, 2.3 %

Rank 26: Bulgaria, 1.4 %

Rank 27: Romania, 1.3 %

How to read: bars start at zero. Every country with a value is shown, ranked from highest to lowest.Source: Eurostat, Employed persons working from home by professional status - % of total employment (lfsa_ehomp).Chart: Civitascope (civitascope.eu) · CC BY 4.0 · Download image · Download data ·

Usually, sometimes, never

In 2025, 8.8% of employed people in the EU usually worked from home, 14.2% sometimes and 77.0% never.

Employed people working from home, usually, sometimes and never, %

2025

EU, usually: 8.8 %,sometimes: 14.2 %,never: 77.0 %,

Rank 1: Finland, usually: 20.5 %,sometimes: 21.0 %,never: 58.6 %,

Rank 2: Ireland, usually: 19.2 %,sometimes: 16.6 %,never: 64.2 %,

Rank 3: Belgium, usually: 13.2 %,sometimes: 23.9 %,never: 62.9 %,

Rank 4: Germany, usually: 13.0 %,sometimes: 11.7 %,never: 75.4 %,

Rank 5: Malta, usually: 12.5 %,sometimes: 13.4 %,never: 74.1 %,

Rank 6: Sweden, usually: 12.4 %,sometimes: 32.1 %,never: 55.5 %,

Rank 7: Estonia, usually: 11.6 %,sometimes: 16.8 %,never: 71.7 %,

Rank 8: Netherlands, usually: 11.3 %,sometimes: 41.0 %,never: 47.7 %,

Rank 9: Luxembourg, usually: 11.2 %,sometimes: 31.7 %,never: 57.1 %,

Rank 10: France, usually: 11.1 %,sometimes: 24.4 %,never: 64.5 %,

Rank 11: Austria, usually: 10.8 %,sometimes: 17.8 %,never: 71.4 %,

Rank 12: Portugal, usually: 8.9 %,sometimes: 12.4 %,never: 78.7 %,

Rank 13: Latvia, usually: 8.5 %,sometimes: 4.1 %,never: 87.5 %,

Rank 14: Spain, usually: 7.9 %,sometimes: 7.8 %,never: 84.3 %,

Rank 15: Denmark, usually: 7.6 %,sometimes: 33.1 %,never: 59.3 %,

Rank 16: Slovenia, usually: 7.3 %,sometimes: 11.9 %,never: 80.8 %,

Rank 16: Slovakia, usually: 7.3 %,sometimes: 9.5 %,never: 83.2 %,

Rank 18: Czechia, usually: 6.6 %,sometimes: 10.3 %,never: 83.1 %,

Rank 19: Poland, usually: 6.1 %,sometimes: 10.2 %,never: 83.7 %,

Rank 20: Lithuania, usually: 5.1 %,sometimes: 7.5 %,never: 87.4 %,

Rank 21: Croatia, usually: 4.7 %,sometimes: 9.2 %,never: 86.1 %,

Rank 22: Cyprus, usually: 4.2 %,sometimes: 10.1 %,never: 85.7 %,

Rank 23: Hungary, usually: 4.1 %,sometimes: 5.7 %,never: 90.2 %,

Rank 24: Italy, usually: 2.7 %,sometimes: 5.5 %,never: 91.8 %,

Rank 25: Greece, usually: 2.3 %,sometimes: 4.4 %,never: 93.3 %,

Rank 26: Bulgaria, usually: 1.4 %,sometimes: 2.6 %,never: 96.0 %,

Rank 27: Romania, usually: 1.3 %,sometimes: 2.3 %,never: 96.4 %,

How to read: one row per country, and each bar adds up to 100%. Each value is in the columns on the right, in the bar's order from left to right. Countries are ranked by the “usually” column.Source: Eurostat, Employed persons working from home by professional status - % of total employment (lfsa_ehomp).Chart: Civitascope (civitascope.eu) · CC BY 4.0 · Download image · Download data ·

About the data

The share of employed people who usually work at home in their main job, meaning at least half of the time they worked in the four (to twelve) working weeks before the end of the survey week.

Counted: aged 15 to 64, employed people.

Eurostat: “'Mainly' in this context should be interpreted as: working at home at least half of the time worked in a reference period of four (to twelve) working weeks preceding the end of the reference week.” (source)

EU Labour Force Survey (EU-LFS), a sample survey of households run by the national statistical institutes. The answer is the respondent's own account of the time worked at home in the main job.

How to read these numbers

How it is measured

The survey covers people usually living in private households. People in collective or institutional households are not included.

"Usually" means working at home for at least half of the time worked in the four (to twelve) working weeks before the end of the survey week. People who worked at home less than half of the time, but at least one hour, count as working from home sometimes. Telework counts as working at home. Only the main job counts. Occasionally checking emails or answering calls from home does not count as work.

Different definitions

Since 2021, every value for Spain and France is marked by Eurostat as following a different definition (flag d). Both countries still decide whether people on temporary lay-off count as employed by the rules used until 2020. This concerns France (2025) and Spain (2025).

Sources and data

Eurostat, Employed persons working from home by professional status - % of total employment (lfsa_ehomp). Data updated 30 October 2026, retrieved 1 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0.

Eurostat metadata · Eurostat methodology

The exact Eurostat API query

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/api/dissemination/statistics/1.0/data/lfsa_ehomp?format=JSON&lang=en&age=Y15-64&freq=A&frequenc=USU&geo=AT&geo=BE&geo=BG&geo=CY&geo=CZ&geo=DE&geo=DK&geo=EE&geo=EL&geo=ES&geo=EU27_2020&geo=FI&geo=FR&geo=HR&geo=HU&geo=IE&geo=IT&geo=LT&geo=LU&geo=LV&geo=MT&geo=NL&geo=PL&geo=PT&geo=RO&geo=SE&geo=SI&geo=SK&sex=T&unit=PC&wstatus=EMP

How every number in this story was computed