According to a study by the Ifo Institute, a large majority of companies in Germany want to continue offering home office options in the future. Only four percent want to abolish working from home. Twelve percent are planning stricter regulations. Three out of four companies that allow home office, however, want to keep it unchanged. “These results refute the view that the trend is back to the office,” said Ifo researcher Jean-Victor Alipour. Eleven percent of companies even want to make their rules more flexible.
In 79 percent of companies, working from home is basically possible. This is much more common in large companies (93 percent) than in small and medium-sized businesses (75 percent). In addition, the individual economic sectors differ: while 82 percent of service providers and 89 percent of industrial companies can offer home offices, this only applies to 40 percent of construction and trading companies. Across all sectors, only a minority want to limit or abolish working from home.
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“It is undisputed that on-site work is superior to home office in some aspects,” said Alipour. “Stricter rules through greater coordination of on-site work times can make home office more productive overall.”
