Trade unions are calling on employers to respect the right to disconnect as millions of people continue to work from home as the lockdown is lifted.

Before the outbreak, just one in ten people worked from home every day. But new European research shows that almost 40% of EU workers started working from home during confinement.

And ‘telework’ is set to become more permanent in order to maintain social distancing in offices – Twitter, Dell, and Facebook are among companies that have already extended or made permanent home working.

The ETUC supports ‘telework’ for as many workers as possible in these exceptional circumstances but we are vigilant that working from home every day can blur the line between professional and personal time.

The latest EU Working Conditions Survey shows people regularly working from home are:

• Twice as likely to work 48 hours or more a week than those working at their employer’s premises
   
• Six times more likely to work in their free time
   
• The group of workers most likely to report waking up repeatedly during sleep

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