December 12th, 2008
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Labor ministry to promote telecommuting; hopes to double number by 2013

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Hungary’s labour ministry plans to double the percentage of people working from home in Hungary from the current 4-5 percent by 2013, ministry official Gabor Simon said on Thursday.

The ministry has worked out five telecommuting programmes to boost this type of flexible employment in Hungary.

The government plans to spend up to about 30 billion forints on such programmes using EU funding.

Over the past six years 5,000 people have been hired on a work-at-home basis, and expanding this type of work could help ease some of the ill effects of the financial crisis, said Labour Minister Erika Szucs.

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  1. rolrox says:
    December 12, 2008 at 3:30 pm

    How? Are there going to be subsidies?