More people in Finland are choosing to work remotely compared to before the Covid pandemic, according to the results of Statistics Finland's Quality of Work Life survey.
The survey revealed that over one third of workers in Finland carried out their tasks remotely to some extent last year, while one in five did so for at least half of their working time.
These figures are down on the last comparable Quality of Work Life survey — carried out in 2021 during the pandemic — but show a 7 percentage point increase on the pre-pandemic poll of 2018. The numbers also reflect a doubling of remote workers recorded 10 years ago, in 2013.
The rise is being driven in particular by an increase in the number of women now working remotely, Statistics Finland's report noted, with 37 percent of women and 33 percent of men doing so last year.
"This is the first time in the Quality of Work Life Survey that remote work was more common among women than men. Men have conventionally worked remotely more often than women," the report stated, adding that the difference narrowed in 2018, and had "reversed by 2023".
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