Lisbon, Feb. 24, 2026 (Lusa) – Around 575,000 women were teleworking in the last quarter of 2025, corresponding to about one in five employed women (22%), according to a CGTP study.
In the fourth quarter of 2025, almost 600,000 employed women worked from home, representing 22.8% of the female workforce, according to a study prepared by the CGTP’s Commission for Equality between Women and Men, based on INE data, to mark Equality Week and International Women’s Day.
Of these, the ‘overwhelming majority’ (around 575,000) were teleworking, equivalent to 21.9% of female employment.
This means that between September and December last year, one in five employed women was teleworking.
It should be noted that the difference between teleworking and working from home is that teleworking involves using information and communication technologies (ICT) to perform tasks from home.
Of the nearly 600,000 women who worked from home, 23.4% did so all the time, about 41% did so regularly, i.e. combining face-to-face work with work from home, about 23% outside working hours and 13.2% occasionally.
‘The average number of days spent teleworking was three,’ adds the trade union led by Tiago Oliveira.
According to the CGTP’s analysis, ‘overall, teleworking covered around 1.13 million workers’ in Portugal, equivalent to 21.2% of total employment, ‘with women representing 51% of the total’.
The use of teleworking fell after the Covid-19 pandemic but began to rise in mid-2023, exceeding the one-million-worker mark in this regime (full-time and hybrid) in 2024.
This is the fourth study released by the CGTP on the current situation of women in the workplace, as part of Equality Week, covering various areas, including wages, precariousness, and working hours.
The CGTP is holding Equality Week from 2 to 8 March with the slogan ‘The Equality that April brought. Strengthen Rights. Comply with the Constitution’, with initiatives across the country.
International Women’s Day is celebrated on 8 March.
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