Research firm Gartner is predicting that there is going to be a huge uptick in the number of workers who are home-based.
“By the end of 2021, 51 percent of all knowledge workers worldwide are expected to be working remotely, up from 27 percent of knowledge workers in 2019”, Gartner said in a report. It estimates that remote workers will represent 32 percent of employees worldwide by the end of 2021, up from 17 percent in 2019.
So-called “knowledge workers “are those involved in knowledge-intensive professions such as writers, accountants and engineers. While a remote worker is an employee working away from his/her company, government, or customer site at least one full day a week (hybrid workers) or who works fully from home (fully remote workers).
“India and China will produce some of the largest numbers of remote workers, but their overall penetration rates will remain relatively low with 30 percent of workers in India being remote (by 2022) and 28 percent of workers in China working remotely”, Gartner projected. Remote working varies from country to country depending on IT adoption, culture, and mix of industries.
