Although some companies call their employees back to the office, the Home office-work in Germany established. In August, 24.4 percent of all employees at least partially worked from home, As the Munich IFO Institute announced on Tuesday for its economic survey
. “The home office quota has been quite stable in a quarter of all employees since 2022,” said IFO researcher Jean-Victor Alipour. “There is no trend towards returning to the office.” Prominent examples of individual companies that bring their employees back to the office, “remain individual cases”.
Corporations like Vodafone or Volkswagen Had announced that they were to order their employees into the office more often. “Return actions dominate the headlines,” said Alipour. “In particular, young and quickly growing companies rely on home office.” Home office has already been firmly integrated in culture among the employers of tomorrow. “Home office is and remains established,” said the IFO expert.
The least is worked in the construction industry from home
In the individual economic sectors, however, the use diveries. The proportion of employees among the service providers is highest: 35.1 percent work at least partially from home here. In the processing industry, the proportion is less than half as high at 15.7 percent. It is 11.9 percent in retail (wholesale: 17 percent; retail: 4.6 percent). The least is used in the construction industry from home (4.4 percent).
The IFO Institute had already determined in a survey in May that academics in Germany even use an above average home office: With 1.6 days a week, German academics work significantly more than the global average in international comparison: the institute determined this in a survey with 40 countries at 1.2 days – mind you not for all employees, but in people with a university degree.