Home Office is here to stay? Access to Home Office and Remote Work Potentials across Swiss Industries

Elisabeth Essbaumer ()

No 2213, Economics Working Paper Series from University of St. Gallen, School of Economics and Political Science

Abstract: This paper documents the remote potential across Swiss industries, relying on data provided by the Swiss Statistical Office. Overall, the obtained results show that 47.1% of jobs in the current Swiss economy can at least partly be performed from home. In comparison, only 25.8% of employees indicate that they work remotely. Consequently, the implementation of remote work could almost be doubled to fully exploit the existing potential. Furthermore, there exists a substantial variation across Swiss industries and for employees’ socio-demographic characteristics. Overall, Swiss industries are able to adopt remote work when required, which is demonstrated by the exploitation of previously untapped potentials during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Keywords: Remote work; Switzerland; digital transformation; teleworking (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D24 J22 J24 O33 P18 R12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 21 pages
Date: 2022-10
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