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The Covid-19 pandemia accelerated the adoption of teleworking in Spain, five years later, the mantra that the teleworking had arrived to stay admits some nuances. While it is true that it does not record the adoption figures of 2020, it does seem to have stabilized by the advantages it offers To companies. Gone were the days when going to the office was the only option and Teleworking was a science fiction thing. With almost 15% adoption, teleworking double They value conciliationor as a talent collection tool for companies. Teleworking is stabilized. As we already pointed out in October 2024, Teleworking has started a consolidation stage in the labor market after its boom and subsequent fall. According to data collected in the last Randstad Workmonitor Report14.6% of Spanish employees Teletrabajan. This implies the highest figure of the last three years, and a considerable increase with respect to 5% teleworking that was recorded in 2019. This means that approximately one in six workers has adopted this modality, either teleworking full time or in a hybrid day format that combines days in the office with days at home. The most significant thing is that, despite the increase in the policies back to the office that some companies have undertaken, the slight rebound of the last quarter of 2024 registered by the INEThey reveal that teleworking has maintained the guy. More flexibility and conciliation. This percentage represents a significant change in the labor market, in a country with a strong face -to -face work such as Spain. “The new hybrid work models are consolidating in Spain and in the rest of the developed countries as a result of a demand by employees to implement measures that facilitate the conciliation between working and staff life,” says Oriol Mas, general director of Randstad Enterprise. Although teleworking has not meant the total revolution that some predicted, it has been consolidated as a tool for Time and conciliation flexibilityas well as to maintain productivity before specific or meteorological events that in other times would have involved stopping business activity. An example was the Dana that Valencia sufferedor recent meteorological alerts in which great companies recommended Your employees work from home. The secret of success: hybrid day. The factor that has made this increase in teleworking have been the appearance of The hybrid dayswho have gained prominence in recent years. This model allows to maintain the cohesion of the equipment with face -to -face days, and make the day with teleworking days. In absolute terms, the Randstad report indicates that only 7.5% of the total employees who telework do so full time, while the remaining 7.1 does so regularly in a context of Hybrid Day. Where do you telework more. Teleworking is closely linked to the nature of the companies that offer it, so the type of companies in a territory decisively influences the percentage of teleworking. According to him Randstad studythe autonomous communities where the most telework are usually those with a greater concentration of technology companies and large companies. By communities, Madrid leads teleworking with 25.9% of total workers betting on this modality. 13.5% do so regularly (3 days or more), while 12.4% do so occasionally (less than three days per week). It is followed by Catalonia (16.2%), Community Valencian (14.4%), Basque Country (13.1%) and Galicia (12.4%). Teleworking percentage by Autonomous Communities In contrast, those communities with the greatest predominance of manufacturing industry or the primary sector are those that register a lower incidence of teleworking in their labor market. La Rioja with only 6.3%is the one with the lowest percentage of Teleworking, followed by the Canary Islands (8.2%), Navarra (9%), Castilla y León (9.3%) and the Region of Murcia (9.4%). In Xataka | Teleworking dominated the world during pandemia. Five years later your reality is very different Image | Unspash (DFY)