Analysis: Fewer and fewer people go to work for eight hours a day

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%).