An increasing number of companies limit the possibility of remote work. In January 2024, it was provided by 71 percent of employers. However, in December, 9 percentage points less. This year, every tenth company has a plan to limit it.
Large and medium -sized companies in Poland have limited the possibility remote work. At the end of 2024, it was provided by 62 percent. enterprises, while in January 2024 it was 71 percent. Whereas The percentage of companies that did not allow employees to work from home, increased by 14 percentage points at that time, to 37 percent. – results from a study at the request of Grant Thornton.
Employees must appear in the office anyway
“If employers agree to remote work, they prefer that Employees with a smaller or less frequency appeared in the office” – noted Grant Thornton. She added that these companies argue that the employee is to be in the office 1-4 days a month (27 percent), 5 percent declares a frequency of 4-10 days, and from 10 to 15 days – 13 percent .
In December last year 2 percent The companies did not know how often their employees should appear in the office. This is a decline compared to January 2024, when it was 30 percent.
Companies that do not offer remote work most often refer to the lack of appropriate tools to perform it, e.g. laptops. Such an answer was given by 38 percent. respondents – a decrease by 5 percentage points Compared to January 2024, 24 percent companies are afraid of a decrease in efficiency and quality of work (increase by 11 percentage points), and every fourth employer (24 %) claims that their employees did not express such a desire – this is a decrease by 11 percentage points. compared to the January examination.
Another 21 percent He is afraid that remote work contributes to a worse flow of information between employees (decrease by 14 percentage points), 8 percent. indicated an additional cost associated with this (decrease by 14 percentage points); 3 percent respondents are afraid of deterioration of the atmosphere and a sense of bond between employees (a decrease by 27 percentage points). The reasons why the possibility of performing remote work was not introduced in their company could not show 16 percent. respondents.
Some companies want a complete return to offices
“The vast majority of Polish employers plan to maintain the current remote work model introduced in their companies this year,” the authors of the study noted. This solution in December declared 80 percent. Polish companies, in January 2024 – half as much.
Every tenth company (10 percent) intends to limit the possibility of working at a distance this year; From this half wants a complete return to the offices, and the rest – increasing the office frequency.
Employers who consider or intend to increase the dimension of work from the office within 12 months to their employees have exchanged worse quality of duties performed by the employee (58 percent), and 42 percent. – Problems with the flow of information between employees. Every third entrepreneur complained about the worse atmosphere among employees.
Remote work provisions
The authors of the study reminded that on the basis of current regulations, employees can work remotely in the form of “actually” or “system”. It must be implemented fully or partly outside the workplace from the place established with the employer.
Remote work can also be carried out on the basis of a unilateral command of the employer for a specific time for objective, random and independent reasons for the employer and occasionally; Then a maximum of 24 days a year may last at the employee's request.
Every year, this study of Grant Thornton International conducts among 10,000 owners or members of the management board of medium and large enterprises in the world. In Poland, since 2020, it has been conducted by the CATI method (telephone interviews) by Biostat, among the owner and members of the management board of 100 medium and large enterprises.
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