Work From Home — Increasing trend figures
The pandemic situation has influenced the labour market towards WFH. In UK, Germany and France the amount of job offers in LinkeIn allowing WFH has shown high double digit growth, or even more, compared to 12 month ago. The numbers according to the article The Great Reshuffle — Dynamik und Bewegung auf dem Arbeitsmarkt | LinkedIn are:
UK 11.7% (+58%), Germany 12.4% (+76%), France 7.4% (+180%)
Looking at the overall picture in Europe, the WFH proportion is getting out of the single digits into solid double digits on a wide scale. Considering that many jobs aren’t suited for WFH and never will be, it is obvious that nearly everyone working in an office job will, sooner or later, getting asked for this option.
WFH is often attractive for both employers and employees. The “Deutsche Bank”, the largest bank in Germany, is paying their workforce even an extra of 1000 € (about 1100 US$) for accepting a 40% WFH ratio. Deutsche Bank: Bis zu 1000 Euro Aufwandspauschale fürs Homeoffice (handelsblatt.com).
In US, the majority of workers prefer to continue with WFH (here referred to as “home office”):
And according to experts, this is just the beginning, more changes will accompany the trend,
“There is unmet demand out there: people want to move to lower-cost places, they want to move to less dense places, they want to move farther away. They’re not doing it in vast numbers yet, but I do think that we will see that.”
says Walter Frick in The next wave of remote jobs will transform the economy — Quartz (qz.com)
We can expect that the trend towards more WFM will enforce other trends, such as the ongoing suburbanisation as Rainer Schorr (PRS Family Trust) sees for example in the German capital Berlin not just recently.
