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Work: in Central and Eastern Europe few employed from home

Only Slovenia well over the EU average

20 June, 12:21
(ANSA) - BELGRADE, 20 GIU - The percentage of employed persons aged 15 to 64 in the European Union who usually work from home stood at 5.0% in 2017, Eurostat said. However, the percentage is much lower in Central and Eastern European member countries, Eurostat data show.

The lowest percentage of people working from home was registered in in Bulgaria (0.3%) and Romania (0.4%), followed by Cyprus (1.2%) and Croatia (1.4%). A low proportion of people working usually from home was to be found also in Latvia (2.1%), Hungary (2.5%), Lithuania (2.6%), Slovakia (3.5%) and the Czech Republic (3.9%).

In the CEE region, only Slovenia, with 7.2%, registered a number of people usually working from home higher than the EU average. (ANSA).

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