A Quarter of Employees in Germany Still Work From Home

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Companies are facing significant resistance from employees when they ask them to return to work in offices.

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In Germany, according to data for August, 24.4 percent of employees worked from home at least part of the working day, according to a report published today by the Munich Institute for Economic Research Ifo.

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Although companies bringing their employees back to the office have recently received a lot of attention, according to the Ifo Institute, these are isolated cases. Young and fast-growing companies, in particular, are opting for home offices.

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Despite prominent examples of companies calling the workforce back to the office: The home office rate in Germany remains constant at around a quarter.

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Since Corona, the quota has hardly changed since Munich/Berlin, September 2, 2025. The "Homeoffice" rate has fallen to 24 to 25 percent, which means that about one in four employees work at home and that doesn't change much any more. This is evident from an analysis by the Ifo Institute in Munich. Ifo researchers: Return actions remain individual cases "The home office rate has been quite stable for a quarter of all employees since 2022", says I…

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In August, 24.4% of all employees in Germany worked at home, at least in part, according to the latest ifo business survey. {/mprestriction} "The home office rate has been quite stable since 2022, with a quarter of all employees," says ifo researcher Jean-Victor Alipour. "A trend towards returning to the office is not recognisable. Prominent examples of individual companies bringing their employees back to the office remain isolated cases.