Analysis: Fewer and fewer people go to work for eight hours a day
It is an increasingly common phenomenon that companies do not employ their employees in the usual, eight-hour-a-day, local work, but in an alternative way. The spread of atypical work was accelerated by the 2020 coronavirus epidemic to an extent never seen before.In addition to home office and telecommuting, which can be said to be commonplace, there are many other alternatives, according to data from Profession.hu.
Atypical, i.e. different from the usual, employment solutions exist in a variety of forms: starting from on-call work, through job sharing or employment established by several employers, to employment for part-time workers and incapacitated workers. In Hungary, however, these are less commonly used solutions: according to the data of the most visited thematic job portal, in addition to telecommuting and home office, which have gained more and more space in recent years, only part-time and fixed-term employment are typical.
Employment with a full-time, indefinite-term employee contract is still the most common
The most common form of work is working 8 hours a day as an employee in the designated place: these make up two-thirds of the job advertisements. Among the unusual forms, telecommuting/home office work is the most common, and the share of this option in advertisements has been steadily increasing in recent years: the 6.8% measured in the first quarter of 2022 has almost doubled by the first quarter of this year. Part-time employment is recommended by 5.4% of advertisements.
Telecommuting or home office work is most common among employers in Budapest: 73.4% of all such advertisements were posted for jobs in Budapest. Among the counties, Pest County leads (11.4%), followed by Fejér County (2.6%) and Győr-Moson-Sopron County (2.2%).
In terms of professions, it is aimed at professionals working in finance and accounting (accounting for 18.5% of all such ads) and IT programming and development (13.2%).
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