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Only 0.3% of job offers in Spain give the possibility of teleworking

2021-08-10T13:36:29.291Z


In the great European powers, 12% of job advertisements include the possibility of remote employment A woman teleworks in Spain, in a file photo.Enric Fontcuberta / EL PAÍS Teleworking has skyrocketed since the outbreak of the pandemic and almost two million people still maintain this modality in Spain, but it is too early to say that it has come to stay. The number of teleworkers declines quarter by quarter and the new offers that offer remote employment are negligible, according to a report pu


A woman teleworks in Spain, in a file photo.Enric Fontcuberta / EL PAÍS

Teleworking has skyrocketed since the outbreak of the pandemic and almost two million people still maintain this modality in Spain, but it is too early to say that it has come to stay.

The number of teleworkers declines quarter by quarter and the new offers that offer remote employment are negligible, according to a report published this Tuesday by the employment consultancy Adecco Group Institute.

Out of every 100 advertisements published in Spain, only 0.3 give the possibility of teleworking, compared to 12 out of every 100 on average in Western Europe.

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Javier Blasco, director of the Adecco Group Institute, explains that the difference lies in the fact that the productive fabric of other countries is much more “

teleworkable

” and compared to very advanced economies in telecommunications or banking, Spain is rich in services.

"The Spanish economy is very much based on the face-to-face model and in recent months the sectors that have grown the most in employment are education, health, transport ... There are few possibilities of working from home", summarizes the expert.

"It is not better or worse, simply in Spain there is a very strong face-to-face culture," he says.

Although Spain lags far behind its partners,

Adecco's

Western Europe Telework

report

acknowledges that it has made a greater leap than its neighbors in the implementation of telework over the last year.

If in April 2020 the announcements that cited this modality were practically non-existent (0.1%), during the pandemic they have tripled (+ 215%), while in Western Europe they have doubled (+ 126%).

Only in France has the demand for remote employees grown more: it has shot up 463% in less than a year.

On the other hand, job advertisements that include teleworking have grown in Italy by 175%, in the Netherlands by 144%, in Germany by 103% and in the United Kingdom by 61%.

9.5% of the employed telework

The study also updates the number of employees who work remotely in Spain: during the second quarter, 1.85 million people took advantage of this modality, 9.4% of those employed. This figure indicates a new drop in the total number of teleworkers, which during the first quarter of 2021 amounted to 11.2% of those employed, according to the quarterly report by Red.es, a body dependent on the Ministry of Economic Affairs. The drop is much greater when compared to the second quarter of 2020, in the first months of the pandemic, when 16.2% of Spaniards worked from home.

In this sense, Blasco acknowledges that it is still uncertain whether remote employment will continue once the population is massively vaccinated and the economy fully reactivates. "We see that it is consolidating in technological trades, especially in those with proof of delivery," explains the person in charge, referring to those jobs where productivity can be tested by delivering a project within a specified period of time and where the organization relies on the employee. On the other hand, the expert understands that there are functions that telework makes difficult and will not replace, such as meetings: “Culturally, it is difficult for us to get into a collective environment without seeing each other in person. Digitization has not yet solved all the problems ”.

Likewise, Blasco attributes the success or not of remote employment to the reading that each company makes of the teleworking law, which was finally published in the BOE two weeks ago, and which states that the material necessary to work will be borne by the company and the schedule will be respected registering the entry and exit, as in the office.

Source: elparis

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