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

By: Trademagazin Date: 2024. 06. 28. 10:42

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At the national level, three-quarters of Hungarian employees support the home office, regardless of whether it is feasible at all in terms of their own work. However, the possibility of working from home is not given to many: 57% have to go to work every time to the designated place. The reason for this is often management restrictions, since according to their own judgment, they could do their work partially or entirely from home, yet they are not allowed to do so. Regarding the prospects for the future, a quarter of the workers are pessimistic: they expect the option of the home office to shrink.

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%).