IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/vrs/bjrecm/v11y2023i1p305-314n12.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Telework Trends in Europe: Who are Up-and-Coming, Leaders, Losing Ground or Laggards?

Author

Listed:
  • Vitola Alise

    (1 Institute of Civil Engineering and Real Estate Economics, Riga Technical University, Riga, Latvia)

  • Christopoulos George

    (2 KANEP-GSEE (Center of Developing Educational Policy of the Greek Confederation of Workers), Athens, Greece)

Abstract

Telework in Europe has seen a significant surge, especially due to technological advancements and the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper focuses on the incidence and changes in telework in European countries before and after the COVID-19 pandemic and proposes a classification of European countries in terms of share of teleworkers and the rate of increase in teleworking. This classification provides insights into the varying stages of teleworking adoption across different European countries and can be used by practitioners, researchers and policy makers. Furthermore, we focus on Greece as a critical example of digital underachievement. The study uses data from the European Union Labour Force Survey (EU-LFS) and covers the European Union countries, Iceland, Norway and Switzerland. The paper shows that the pandemic significantly boosted remote work across Europe. However, the disparity in remote work adoption between regions within Europe remains significant displaying a divide between North-Western and South-Eastern Europe regarding remote work adoption.

Suggested Citation

  • Vitola Alise & Christopoulos George, 2023. "Telework Trends in Europe: Who are Up-and-Coming, Leaders, Losing Ground or Laggards?," Baltic Journal of Real Estate Economics and Construction Management, Sciendo, vol. 11(1), pages 305-314, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:vrs:bjrecm:v:11:y:2023:i:1:p:305-314:n:12
    DOI: 10.2478/bjreecm-2023-0019
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://doi.org/10.2478/bjreecm-2023-0019
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.2478/bjreecm-2023-0019?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:vrs:bjrecm:v:11:y:2023:i:1:p:305-314:n:12. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Peter Golla (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.sciendo.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.