Eurostat 2025 data: EU work-from-home rate holds at 9%, Finland leads at 20.5%, Romania trails at 1.3%

Eurostat’s Labour Force Survey 2025 data, released in June 2026, shows 9% of EU-27 employed persons usually worked from home over the year. The figure has held steady since 2022, after climbing from 5.5% pre-pandemic in 2019.

The country split is stark. At the top: Finland (20.5%), Ireland (19.2%), the Netherlands (16.4%), and Sweden (15.6%) all sit above 15%. At the bottom: Romania (1.3%), Bulgaria (1.4%), Greece (2.3%), and Italy (2.7%) all sit below 3%. Spain hovers around the EU average.

Why this matters: the same job title can be remote-default in Helsinki and office-mandatory in Bucharest. For anyone planning a cross-border move, local remote-work norms shape what’s actually negotiable with employers, as much as the salary or the cost of living. The Eurostat figures are the baseline reference for that comparison.

The north-south and west-east gradient reflects four structural factors: economic mix (services-heavy economies enable more remote work), workplace culture, digital infrastructure, and the strength of statutory remote-work rights. Countries with explicit right-to-request remote work laws (Finland, the Netherlands, Ireland) cluster at the top; countries without consolidate at the bottom.

The next Eurostat LFS update covering 2026 data is expected around mid-2027.