53% of EU enterprises held remote meetings in 2024

In 2024, in the EU, 52.9% of enterprises with 10 or more employees conducted meetings remotely via the internet. With a 2.9 percentage points (pp) increase from 2022, this indicates that the changes implemented in work models during the COVID-19 pandemic might be here to stay. 

Among the EU countries, there was a large variation in the percentage of enterprises that used this feature, with the highest shares being registered in Finland (84.5% of enterprises), Sweden (79.1%), Denmark (78.5%) and Belgium (70.1%). On the opposite side of the scale, the lowest shares were recorded in Bulgaria (32.4%), Hungary (33.5%), Latvia (34.0%) and Romania (34.9%).

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Source dataset: isoc_ci_mvis 

Mostly large enterprises offered access to remote working

Statistical data on remote access aims to measure the technological readiness of enterprises to give employees remote access to 3 types of enterprise resources:  the email system, documents and business applications or software of the enterprise. In 2024, in the EU, 6 out of 10 enterprises (60.2%) with 10 or more employees offered all 3 types of remote access to their staff. 

When it comes to the size of the enterprises, 91.9% of large enterprises (250 or more employees) offered all 3 types of remote access to their employees, while the same happened in 78.2% of medium enterprises (from 50 to 249 employees) and 56.0% of small enterprises (from 10 to 49 employees). 

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Source dataset: isoc_ci_ras

Large enterprises led in all types of remote access. Almost all large enterprises offered remote access to the email system of the enterprise (97.8%), to documents of the enterprise (e.g. files, spreadsheets, presentations, charts, photos) (94.9%) and business applications or software of the enterprise (e.g. access to accounting, sales, orders, Customer Relationship Management systems) (93.1%). 

As for medium enterprises, 92.2% gave their employees remote access to the email system, 83.9% to the documents of the enterprise and 82.0% to the business applications or software of the enterprise. 

Comparatively, small enterprises provided remote access to a lesser extent, since 78.5% of them gave their employees remote access to email, 65.5% to documents and 61.8% to business applications or software of the company.

Compared with 2022, there was an increase in all types of access among enterprises of all sizes, most notably for small enterprises providing access to company documents (+4.6 pp). 

For more information

• Statistics Explained article on online meetings and remote access to enterprise resources
• Thematic section on digital economy and society 
• Database on digital economy and society
• Digitalization in Europe – 2025 edition

Methodological notes 

• Data comes from the 2024 EU survey on ICT usage and e-commerce in enterprises and refers to enterprises with at least 10 employees or self-employed persons (classified in statistical classification of economic activities in the European Community (NACE) Rev. 2 sections C to J, L to N and group 95.1).
• EU enterprises: enterprises with at least 10 employees and self-employed persons.
• Employees: refers to both employees and self-employed persons.
• Sweden: break in the time series in 2024.

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