This is no longer news to anyone, the pandemic has had a significant impact on many facets of our lives, including the way we work. It has been an acceleration vector for teleworking and has grown this new trend exponentially. During the pandemic, more than one-third of Canadians have teleworked. This number is 30% for Quebecers and rises to 43% for Montrealers.
Of course, the employment sector has had an impact on the ability to do work from home. For example, it is the finance and insurance sector that wins the golden palm with 73% of people in this sector teleworking in 2021, compared to only 5% for the restaurant and accommodation sector.
The level of education also seems to have an impact on teleworking. 58% of people with a master’s or doctoral degree worked from home in 20221, compared to only 7% for those without a high school diploma.
Finally, the type of company would also have an impact on the possibility of being able to telework. In this sense, companies with more than 500 employees have adopted teleworking more than SMEs with fewer than 20 employees. For example, in the private sector, twice as many employees teleworked in large companies than in SMEs.
There are therefore several factors that impact the possibility for an employee to telework or not, but this new way of working is definitely gaining popularity.