Profession.hu: Four out of ten employees expect the home office rules to change

Although the vast majority of Hungarian workers (76%) support remote/home working and only 15% are expressly against it, the relevant workplace rules mostly do not depend on the employees’ decision. Currently, six out of ten people only have the opportunity to work from their designated workplace, even though many of them, according to their own judgment, could do their work mostly (29%) or even completely (27%) from home, according to a nationwide survey of 1,000 people by Profession.hu representative research.

In many cases, due to the nature of the work, it is not even possible to talk about remote work, since the daily tasks tie the person to a specific place, the majority of them, for example, do physical work (58%) such as delivering goods or selling in stores, but many employees in intellectual work also there are (27%) who have to visit a specific place every time in order to perform their tasks. The latter is more common than the national average among those working in state administration (74%) and in public education (77%).