21.09.2022

64.21% OF BULGARIAN EMPLOYEES PREFER TO WORK MOSTLY FROM HOME

64.21% of Bulgarian employees prefer to work mostly from home (3-5 days a week), shows a new survey of the innovative career platform Kaderabotim.bg, which specializes in providing objective information about the labor market in Bulgaria. It is called "Returning to work back in the office" and was conducted in parallel among 1,207 Bulgarian employees and 502 employers.

The survey gives an idea of ​​the current trends regarding remote work in our country. According to him, currently 58.00% of Bulgarians work mostly from home, and 42% - mostly from the office. The results also show that 39.35% of employees would look for a new job if their employer asked them to return to the office. 34.13% would talk to other colleagues and try to convince management and HR to change their mind, and 26.51% would go back to the office because they have no other choice.

The reasons why working Bulgarians prefer to exercise their profession remotely are that they are more productive (47.45%), can take on additional commitments - a second job (12.88%), and that they can take care of their family, children and household while working from home – 66.67 percent.

Only 38.03% of respondents answered that they would agree to work mostly from the office (from 3 to 5 days a week). The reasons for making this decision are better efficiency (43.16%), opportunities for more socialization (41.84%), and that this is the desire of the management in the company (31.57 percent).

"Although the pandemic has passed, we are observing its consequences on the labor market. Specifically, more than 31% continue to work from home and would only return to the office if asked to do so. What's more, almost 40% of employees would look for another job if they were required to work from the office. So HR professionals are in a difficult position between preserving the freedom of employees to choose how they work, but also the growing need for efficiency. In fact, if we add up the percentages in the survey, we see that for nearly 20% of HR professionals, the top concerns about telecommuting are related to efficiency. Perhaps the solution is for employers to pay more attention to the well-being of their employees and constantly find new ways to motivate and retain employees," says Kostin Tudor, founder and CEO of Kaderabotim.bg."

Employers

81.87% of the employers who participated in the survey shared that they discussed with the Human Resources department or the management of the company the possibility of employees returning for more than 1-2 days a week to the office this year. 13.15% answered that they were not, and 4.98% stated that they worked from the office all the time.

The larger percentage (58.76%) of them indicate that they have chosen a flexible work model, where they themselves choose how to combine work from home and the office. 21.91% of them work mostly from home (between 3-5 days a week), 11.16% - entirely remotely, 4.38% - entirely from the office, 3.78% - mostly from the office (between 3-5 days a week), it is already clear from the study of Kaderabotim.bg.

The idea of ​​employees working from home is supported by only 11.55% of employers. 84.46% of them are looking for a balance between working from home and in the office, and only 3.98% prefer to return to the office entirely. Managers' concerns about telecommuting are mainly related to the quality of communication between employees (33.07%), keeping them motivated (24.10%) and efficiency (19.92%). According to the career information site, 7.97% of employers are worried that an economic crisis is looming, during which the team must be cohesive to be effective and their employees do not want to return to the office. 30.88% are seriously worried about the trend of employees no longer wanting to work from the office.