According to data from the Labor Force Survey (EPA) for the first quarter of the year, 88.8% of Spaniards never teleworked. According to the INE, during the first three months of the year, 5.85% of Spanish employees declared that they teleworked more than half of the days at home, and 4% occasionally.
Therefore, it is clear that these figures demonstrate that the Spanish business culture is still face-to-face, and that teleworking has not yet fully taken hold.
These data contrast with those of other European countries or the U.S.A. where teleworking is more established and accepted, although around this issue there are always questions such as the loss of contact with the office and the universe that exists in each one, and especially with colleagues.
And another step that companies have a hard time taking is allowing people to telework from their second home. In these cases, the business culture that exists is decisive, especially in terms of flexibility, since in order to be able to work from the beach, the company must validate the second home and assess the occupational risks of the second home.