Working from home in Romania: the lowest percentage in EU

 Tomorrow, May 1, it is the celebration of the Labor Day, and employees from the public sector are on vacation for today also. In the private sector there are not so many companies to give a one more free day, but some aloud the employees to work from home or whatever beach they find themselves in. It is not unusual to work outside the office since today is so easy to have an all-you-need office anywhere.

Still, Romania has the lowest percentage in the European Union of workers aged 15 to 74 to work from home, according to 2017 data gathered in a study on EU labor market published by Eurostat.

Last year, 2.8 percent of European Union employees aged between 15 and 74 were working at home, the highest numbers being in Luxembourg, 10 percent, and the lowest in Romania, 0.3 percent, Latvia, 0.5 percent, Croatia, 0.8 percent, Cyprus, 0.6 percent, and Lithuania, 0.9 percent.

Also, the proportion of part-time workers in the EU varied in 2017 from 1 percent of total employees in Romania to 27 percent in Spain.

Last year, 8 percent of EU employees worked at least occasionally at night, with the percentage ranging from 3 percent in Italy to 15 percent in Croatia and Poland. In Romania, 7.3 percent of employees worked at least occasionally at night.

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The highest percentage of EU employees who worked at least 49 hours a week is in the UK, 12 percent and Cyprus, 11 percent, while the lowest is in the Netherlands, Lithuania and Bulgaria (under 1 percent), Sweden (1.1 percent), Latvia (1.7 percent) and Romania (1.8 percent).

The proportion of self-employed persons varies from 8% in Denmark to 30% in Greece.

At EU level 227.02 million employees aged between 15 and 74 years were employed in 2017, of which 32.65 million were self-employed, while in Romania there were 8.67 million employees, and 1.57 million were on independent activities.