Occupational safety and health in Europe - state and trends 2023 
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Figure 19: Employed persons by main place of work – Eurostat 
 
The discrepancy to the total number of employed persons and work at home in Eurostat statistics is due to the 
different approach in the LFS Ad hoc survey 2019 compared to the regular LFS survey. Note that depending on the 
type and point of time of Eurostat surveys, the data can be different. 
 
Eurostat reports additional figures for work from home, based on the regular LFS survey for the EU27:  
‘The percentage of employed persons aged 15 to 64 in the European Union (EU) who usually work 
from home stood at 5.0% in 2017. This figure was highest in the Netherlands (13.7%), followed by 
Luxembourg (12.7%) and Finland (12.3%), and lowest in Bulgaria (0.3%) and Romania (0.4%).’ 84 
The numbers look ed quite different in 2020 and in 2021; in 2021 ca. 13.4% of the employed persons  
worked usually from home, that is, more than 25 million. This figure will probably even out to a more 
stable level in 2023/2024 after new post-pandemic teleworking arrangements come into force. 85