Information economy: working remote rate Germany 2020

According to a survey conducted by the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), just over half of responding companies in the information sector stated that none of their employees had worked from home before the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. During the pandemic, the share of companies that had none of their employees working remotely decreased to 26 percent (as of June 2020).

Share of employees in the information sector working from home before, during and after the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis in Germany in 2020

Share of employees working from home	None	1-10 percent	11-20 percent	21-50 percent	51-100 percent
Before the crisis	52%	27%	9%	8%	4%
During	26%	10%	12%	25%	27%
After the crisis	36%	19%	14%	21%	10%

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Release date

August 2020

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Region

Germany

Survey time period

June 2020

Number of respondents

1,800 companies in the information economy and manufacturing industry

Supplementary notes

According to the source, the figures in this statistic are based on the ZEW Business Survey in the Information Economy 2020. Further information about this survey is available on the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) website.

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