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EU Sometimes Works from Home Rate by Country (2025)

EU Sometimes Works from Home Rate in 2025: 14.1 % of employed persons EU-27 average. Netherlands highest at 40.4, Romania lowest at 2.3. Eurostat (LFSA_EH…

Updated Annual Eurostat
EU-27 (2025)
14.1
% of employed persons
+0.4pp YoY
Highest
40.4
Netherlands
Lowest
2.3
Romania
Countries
27
EU member states

Data

Country% of employed personsYoY Change
Netherlands40.4+1.2pp
Denmark32.5-0.2pp
Luxembourg31.5+1.9pp
Sweden31.5-0.3pp
France24.3+1.6pp
Belgium23.7+1.7pp
Finland20.8+1.2pp
Austria17.8+0.5pp
Ireland16.5+0.6pp
Estonia16.3+0.6pp
Malta13.3-0.9pp
Portugal12.4+0.4pp
Slovenia11.8-0.2pp
Germany11.4+0.3pp
Czechia10.4+0.4pp
Poland10.3+0.4pp
Cyprus9.9+1.8pp
Slovakia9.6+1.7pp
Croatia9.3+0.4pp
Spain7.8+0.2pp
Lithuania7.4+0.8pp
Hungary5.7+0.6pp
Italy5.5-1.1pp
Greece4.5-0.7pp
Latvia3.9+0.2pp
Bulgaria2.6+0.8pp
Romania2.3+0pp

About this Dataset

The share of EU employed persons who sometimes work from home — the hybrid worker segment — reached 14.1% in 2025. This series, available since 2011, shows a gradual pre-pandemic rise to 9% by 2019, a brief dip during the 2020 peak-lockdown phase (as some hybrid workers temporarily shifted to full-time home working), and strong post-2020 growth as hybrid arrangements became Europe's dominant flexible-work model.

Unlike the 'usually works from home' rate — which peaked in 2021 and has since partially retreated — the sometimes-from-home rate has continued rising, with Netherlands (40.4%) leading EU member states and Romania (2.3%) recording the lowest share.

Data sourced from Eurostat Labour Force Survey via SDMX REST API (LFSA_EHOMP, frequenc=SMT). Values are harmonised across member states using consistent LFS methodology.

Coverage spans 2011 through 2025. The chart shows the EU-27 aggregate; the table ranks member states by their latest hybrid work share.

Frequently Asked Questions

In 2025, **14.1%** of employed persons in the EU-27 sometimes worked from home — the Eurostat classification for hybrid workers who work remotely on some, but not most, of their working days. This is up from 9% in 2019 and has grown consistently since 2020 as hybrid working became the dominant flexible-work model across Europe.
Eurostat's EU Labour Force Survey distinguishes two categories of home workers based on frequency. 'Usually works from home' (LFSA_EHOMP, frequenc=USU) captures persons for whom home is the main work location — the majority of their working days. 'Sometimes works from home' (frequenc=SMT) captures those who work from home on some days but attend an office or other workplace for most of their hours — the hybrid model. The two rates are mutually exclusive; adding them gives the share of all employed persons with any home-working arrangement.
Netherlands (40.4%) leads EU member states in the share of hybrid workers. Nordic and Benelux countries consistently rank highest, reflecting advanced digital infrastructure, high shares of knowledge-economy jobs, and progressive workplace regulation. Romania (2.3%) typically record the lowest rates. The within-EU spread is substantial, driven by differences in sectoral composition and corporate culture rather than regulatory barriers alone.
The EU sometimes-from-home rate stood at 6.1% when Eurostat first published this series in 2011. It grew gradually to 9% by 2019. During the 2020 lockdown phase, the sometimes-from-home rate temporarily dipped as some occasional home workers shifted to working from home full-time (moving into the 'usually' category). Post-pandemic, hybrid working accelerated strongly: from 10.8% in 2021 to 14.1% in 2025, marking a structural upward shift in European working patterns.
Growing hybrid working has structural implications across several dimensions: commercial real estate (partial office footprint reduction; flex-space demand rising); talent markets (geographic hiring radius expanding beyond commuter zones); productivity research (mixed evidence on output; evidence clearer for retention and wellbeing); and policy (transport demand management, regional economic development as workers partly decentralise). For investors, the country-level variance in hybrid adoption — ranging from over 40.4% in leading markets to under 5% in laggard economies — is a material input to employer-of-record structuring and pan-European workforce planning.
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