Dan Ness, Principal Analyst, MetaFacts, January 29, 2024
Summary
Remote workers make up nearly half of online workers in the US, Germany, and the UK. In Japan, remote working rates are lower, and among China’s socioeconomically elite online workers, the rates are higher. Smaller employers generally have the highest percentage of workers working remotely, although the pattern is not significantly different among medium and large employers. Remote working rates in 2023 are slightly lower in 2023 than in 2022, although not substantially so.
This MetaFAQs reports on the number of online adults working remotely in the US, Germany, the UK, Japan, and China, split by the employer’s size.
Remote working trends by country for employers of all sizes
- Following the onset of the Covid pandemic, remote working has become the norm for working adults in most countries surveyed
- In the US and the UK, the percentage of workers working remotely has dropped slowly to approach the halfway mark
- In Germany, remote working peaked in 2021 and has since declined
- In Japan, remote work also peaked in 2021, although it has never reached the levels in other countries surveyed
- The socioeconomically elite adults surveyed strongly increased remote work to a peak in 2022, which has since subsided slightly