Remote Work Successful at Every 4th Hungarian Company

According to a survey by the economic research institute GKI, 27% of companies provide the option of working from home to at least some of their employees. Home office has thus become a stable but highly segmented form of employment in Hungary.

The prevalence of working from home is outstanding in the service sector and is almost not characteristic of the construction industry at all. Large companies are the most inclined to use this form of employment, with 83% of them applying remote work. In the next one to two years, three quarters of businesses do not intend to change their related practices.

Regular work from home was previously available only to a few types of professions. These included employees in IT and technology roles, those engaged in creative and intellectual freelance work, consultants and analysts, private tutors, as well as those involved in administrative support tasks (data entry, accounting, etc.).

The spread of broadband internet has expanded the range of tasks that can be performed remotely, and the new coronavirus pandemic made the use of remote work necessary for employers as well. Essentially, employees were sent to work from home wherever possible. The pandemic did not invent remote work but massified and normalized what had previously existed only in a narrow circle. As the pandemic subsided, the role of working from home decreased, but hybrid models remain present: the number of employees in Hungary working partly from home and partly in the office is currently much higher than before the pandemic.

According to data from the Central Statistical Office (KSH) labor force survey, after the pandemic, 8–10% of employees worked partly or entirely from home, compared to 3-4% before 2020. The latest statistical data shows that between August and October 2025, around 392,000 Hungarian employees performed remote work occasionally or regularly. This represented about 9% of the total employed workforce.

In order to map the prevalence of remote work in Hungary and the future of this form of employment, GKI conducted a survey in the Hungarian business sector in December 2025. Those engaged in agriculture and public services were excluded from the survey. Nearly 1,500 business organizations provided evaluable responses. Among the responding companies, 27% offer the option of working from home to at least some of their employees. On average, this option applies to roughly half of the employees in these companies.

Considering the total workforce employed by all respondents as 100%, 13% of employees – essentially every eighth worker – perform some tasks from home occasionally or regularly. Since the sectors excluded from the survey likely have a much lower incidence of home office, the sample analyzed by GKI can be considered representative in this regard.