Approximately 46 percent of employees currently work exclusively from the office, almost 20 percent continue to work remotely 100 percent, and the rest have a hybrid work schedule, according to a survey published on Wednesday by the eJobs online recruitment platform, Agerpres informs.

„The employer’s flexibility remains a decisive criterion when it comes to changing jobs: 6 out of 10 candidates would not accept a job in a company that does not allow remote or hybrid work,” maintain eJobs representatives.

According to the survey, 2022 was the year that employees began to return to office work, after two years in which remote work was the rule rather than the exception, and 2023 looks set to continue this trend.

„If at the beginning of 2020 we were still the country in Europe with the least openness of employers to remote work, now this style of work has entered a form of normality here as well, in almost all fields of activity. At the level of last year, more than 30,000 remote jobs were posted, by 29.4 percent more than in 2021 and 490 percent more than in 2019, and from the beginning of the year until now we already have more than 3,000 remote jobs posted, namely 10 percent of the total. This means that employers remain flexible from this point of view, but this flexibility manifests itself in the direction of accepting a hybrid work schedule rather than a completely remote one,” said Ana Calugaru, head of Communications within eJobs, the largest online recruitment platform in Romania.

Ask what changes they would like to make this year related to the way they work, most respondents (respectively 28.3 percent) answered that they want to have a hybrid work schedule, but to be the ones who decide how many days they will come to the office. 23.6 percent want to work exclusively from home, while 20.1 percent would like to increase the number of days they work remotely.

60.9 percent of the survey participants maintain that they would no longer work in a company that does not accept remote or hybrid work. 26.6 percent of the respondents even say that this is the aspect that would weigh the most heavily in the decision to accept a new job offer. For 55.5 percent, the most important thing is the salary, 7.4 percent are primarily looking for promotion opportunities, and 5.9 percent say that the team matters the most.

The survey was conducted in January 2023 on a sample of 4,318 respondents.

Agerpres