EU pandemic teleworking gender gap Spain comparison - Less implantation and more gender gap: these 4 graphs reveal the difference between teleworking in Spain and in the EU during the pandemic.

From the start of the pandemic, workers who have not seen their activity, paralyzed by coronavirus or have not been included in a Record of Temporal Regulation of Employment (ERTE) were divided into 2 groups: those who have had to adapt their jobs to the new security measures to keep your classroom and have had to relocate its office to your home to telework until the health situation improves.

Thus, the number of remote workers has skyrocketed in Spain, going from just 1 in 20 in 2019 to almost 1 in 3 in mid-2020, according to the Valencian Institute of Economic Research, which meant testing the ability to reconcile family and personal life in the face of increased working hours and job inequality, which motivated the Government to approve the Law on Remote Work in September to regulate its conditions.

However, the latest official figures show that, although the percentage of employed spaniards who habitually work since each has more than doubled from 4.8% before the pandemic, to 10.9% in the past year, the implementation of teleworking in Spain is still well behind the eu average and the results of the 3 other major economies in the eu: Germany, France, and Italy, among others.

EU pandemic teleworking gender gap Spain comparison

This is one of the conclusions of the report of indicators of telework and job mobility in Spain and the EU, presented by the National Observatory of Telecommunications and the Information Society, a public agency under the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation, which highlights how they have continued to persisting differences in this area between Spain and its main partners in europe and how it has remained the gender gap is above the average for the community.

"In 2020, the spaniards worked less from home, that the europeans, 10.9 % of spaniards versus 12.3% of the europeans," reads the report, carried out with data of the statistical service community Eurostat, between which highlights that, in addition to differences between the percentage of who teletrabajan usually, Spain also lags behind in terms of work sporadic in remote and exceeds in almost 6 points the average european of those who have never worked from home.

EU pandemic teleworking gender gap Spain comparison 4,2% difference

As shown in the graph above, 4.2% of Spaniards teleworked sporadically in 2020, less than half the EU average of 8.7%. Meanwhile, those who have never moved their jobs to their homes account for 84.9% of those employed in Spain and an average of 79% in the 27 member countries of the EU.

Similarly, the information extracted reflects a persistent gap between male and female workers. "According to gender, both in Spain and in Europe, women worked from home more than men, but the gender gap is greater in Spain", highlights the dossier, which also points out that men are in the majority in sporadic telework and, especially, among the group that has not worked remotely during the past year.

EU pandemic teleworking gender gap Spain comparison

"The adoption of work from home has a clear female bias, in most Member States are more women than men who work from home", according to the ONTSI report, which reveals that only 4 Community partners escape this trend, with more men working remotely in the Netherlands, Germany, Sweden and Latvia, with margins between half a percentage point and 2 points.

Meanwhile, Malta is the EU country with the largest gender gap with respect to the implementation of remote work among women, with almost 6 points more teleworkers than men, followed by France and Greece, both with 3.6 points more women than men working from home, compared to the 2.2 points difference in Spain or the European average of 1.7 percentage points.

Similarly, differences are also observed by analyzing the impact of teleworking by age groups. Thus, the ONTSI states that the segment with the highest incidence of remote employment is from 25 to 49 years, with 11.6%, 1.4 points less than the EU average. The lowest percentage occurs among those under 24 years of age, both in regular telework, with 5.2%, and in sporadic telework (1.4%).

EU pandemic teleworking gender gap Spain comparison: In this way, more than 9 out of 10 young Spaniards in employment have continued to go to work at the office during the past year. In addition, the pattern of greater female telework is maintained among workers aged 15 to 24, with 6.2 per cent working remotely in general, and 1.9 per cent doing so from time to time, compared with 4.4 per cent and 1.1 per cent, respectively, for young men in the same situation.

The differences by country are even more evident in the following map, which reflects the total percentage of employed people who telecommuted regularly in 2020, in which the high levels of Finland stand out, which leads the ranking with 25.1%, Luxembourg, Ireland, Austria and the Netherlands are all above 17,%. Belgium, Denmark, France, Malta, Germany, Portugal, Estonia and Italy range from 12% to 17%, compared with 10.9% for Spain.

EU pandemic teleworking gender gap Spain comparison Italy vs Spain

In fact, Italy and Spain are the countries below the eu average, with values of telework usual higher, surpassing the majority of the members of the east of the EU, such as Poland, Slovenia, Czech Republic or Hungary, in the south, such as Greece or Cyprus, and countries supposedly more digitized than ours, such as Sweden, Lithuania or Latvia, Bulgaria and Romania followed the tail of the implementation of teleworking among the 27 with a 1.2% and 2.5%, respectively.

Reducing the comparison only to the 4 largest Community economies, the differences are still evident, although they are less pronounced with respect to Italy than in comparison with France, Germany and the Community average, as reflected in the graph below, which shows the French leadership in terms of the implementation of telework, although also its greater gap between remote workers.

In total, France is the country with the most regular telework, at 15.7%, and sporadic, at 13.7%, followed by Germany, at 14.8% and 8%, respectively. Meanwhile, Italy shows similar figures to Spain, with 12.2% of regular remote work, 1.3 points more, but 1.4% sporadic, compared to 4.2% in Spain, so the Transalpine economy has more busy people who have not moved their office home.

EU pandemic teleworking gender gap Spain comparison

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The CNMC approves MásMóvil's bid on Euskaltel as it does not assess risks for the competition

The National Market and Competition Commission (CNMC) has approved the takeover bid presented by MásMóvil on Euskaltel. Competition approves in the first phase and without commitments the move that will make the 4th operator take 100% of Euskaltel. The agency considers that this operation "does not significantly alter the competitive situation" of the sector.

Competition breaks this down to two levels. On the one hand at the national level, it points out that MásMóvil strengthens its position as the fourth operator in the retail markets, and Euskaltel's presence was still limited, so the addition of quotas "will not be very significant", it indicates.

In addition, in the case of Asturias, Galicia and the Basque Country, where Euskaltel has a significant market share in the retail sector and a strategy that presents different aspects with respect to MásMóvil, there are other significant operators that will continue to exert competitive pressure.

In view of these conditions, Competition has authorised the first-stage concentration without commitments.

The offer of MásMóvil, announced on March 28, 2021, is 1,995 million euros for 100% of the group and is conditioned to acquire at least 75% of it to be carried out. Grupo MásMóvil's intention is to exclude Euskaltel from the Stock Market once the operation is concluded.

The resulting group will have annual revenues of 2,700 million euros and about 14 million lines.

The operation is subject to the approval of the competent authorities (the CNMV has already admitted the operation, so the approval of the Government remains, by virtue of the shielding of strategic companies approved at the beginning of the pandemic).