While teleworking figures remain stable, more and more employers are seeking a balance between in-person and virtual work.
He telecommuting totally remote, little by little, is giving way to Hybrid work in Uruguay: according to the last Advice Labor MonitorDuring the first half of the year, this modality represented 3.1% of employment opportunities, while since 2022 it has grown 4.2 times, replacing 100% remote work in positions that involve teleworking.
“He telecommuting “It didn’t go away, but it changed shape,” says the latest Advice report. The diagnosis arises from an analysis of the job offers containing some form of telecommuting as a condition, from the exponential growth that they had with the pandemic of Covid-19 and the consequent containment measures.
In this sense, the consultancy points out that, between 2020 and the beginning of 2022, a time marked by the health emergency, the expansion phase of the telecommuting, driven by a need that involved the “rapid and forced” adoption of a 100% remote modality. In Uruguay, The most acute point of the pandemic—during the first half of 2021—coincided with the greatest growth in remote work opportunities, from 3% to around 8% in six months.
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However, with the normalization of the global and national situation, the integration phasewhere it began to be observed as the telecommuting The company was adapting to the post-pandemic, with hybrid work gaining ground over remote work. In this sense, and although the offers with some degree of non-face-to-face work remain around 9%, the share of modalities that combine both alternatives has been growing, reaching 3.1% in the first half of the year, out of a total of 9.1% of teleworking.
That is to say, “there is a growing preference among employers for hybrid work, replacing remote work”, in search of “a balance” between the advantages of in-person and virtual work. In terms of figures, the demand for hybrid work has multiplied by 4.2 in the last two years: in the first half of 2024, this represented a third of the jobs in demand that adopt teleworking (33%) while in the same period of 2022 it represented 8%. The difference of 25% implies that one in four remote jobs moved to the hybrid mode.
“It is also interesting to note that Uruguay is framed in a regional countertrend: while the telecommuting is receding in the world, in Latin America Employers are showing greater flexibility “in the workplace,” the Advice report notes as an additional conclusion.
Other data on teleworking
The Advice Labor Monitor also investigated the Teleworking adoption ratewhich correlates with the level of responsibility and qualification of the positions: “Leadership and higher qualification positions, where technicians and professionals are employed, performing intellectual and technology-intensive tasks, have a more widespread practice of teleworking (hybrid or remote) compared to lower-qualification and hierarchy positions,” he notes in this regard.
More independent workers are also turning to remote work, while hybrid work is gaining ground among dependent workers.
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By activity, meanwhile, those that “require constant and close supervision of processes, which involve negotiations and access to physical and confidential documentation (auditing, accounting, foreign trade), prefer the hybrid modality.” While others, such as those that “have greater independence from the physical environment and are evaluated based on results, with more flexibility regarding processes (finance, marketing, personnel selection), prefer the 100% remote modality.”
Source: Ambito
