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LATAM Remote Work Surged Tenfold In Three Years

The proportion of remote workers in Latin America increased from 3% to 30% in the last three years, with the hybrid model gaining tremendous traction in recent months.

The International Labor Organization (ILO) informed that over 23 million people in the region were working from home at the height of the COVID-19 outbreak.

After those early years of learning and weighing the benefits and drawbacks of hybrid work, the majority of people and businesses are gravitating towards remote employment, the ILO report noted.

In Argentina and Chile, 9% of employees and 4% of salaried workers continue to work remotely; in Costa Rica, the numbers were even higher.

“Technical and managerial professionals are more likely to work remotely nearly three years after the onset of the pandemic,” the report added.

Latin Americans are very fond of remote work. In a study conducted by software company Zoho Corp in the region, 47% of respondents favoured a remote model, while 45% opted for hybrid.

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Another study by co-working space provider WeWork found that 64% of companies in Mexico are adopting hybrid work. In Chile, around 40% of respondents deemed hybrid to be successful, as opposed to 30% in Argentina and 50% in Brazil and Colombia.

The biggest benefits, cited by a whopping 93% of respondents in the survey, were savings in travel time and transportation costs.

Narayan Ammachchi

News Editor for Nearshore Americas, Narayan Ammachchi is a career journalist with a decade of experience in politics and international business. He works out of his base in the Indian Silicon City of Bangalore.

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