Barriers preventing people in New Zealand from working from home more often
2022 & 2023, % of people who would like to work from home more often
| Year | Response | % of people who would like to work from home more often |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | My laptop or mobile phone isn’t good enough | 8.0000000000000002% |
| 2023 | My laptop or mobile phone isn’t good enough | 5.9999999999999998% |
| 2022 | My internet speed isn’t fast enough | 11.9999999999999996% |
| 2023 | My internet speed isn’t fast enough | 10.000000000000001% |
| 2022 | I don’t have a space at home to work | 8.9999999999999997% |
| 2023 | I don’t have a space at home to work | 8.0000000000000002% |
| 2022 | I have too many face to face meetings, I need to be at work | 23.999999999999999% |
| 2023 | I have too many face to face meetings, I need to be at work | 20.000000000000001% |
| 2022 | My employer doesn’t offer the technological support for me to work from home | 8.9999999999999997% |
| 2023 | My employer doesn’t offer the technological support for me to work from home | 8.0000000000000002% |
| 2022 | My employer doesn’t offer flexible working options | 17.999999999999999% |
| 2023 | My employer doesn’t offer flexible working options | 16.0000000000000003% |
| 2022 | Other | 8.9999999999999997% |
| 2023 | Other | 13.0000000000000004% |
| 2022 | My employer doesn’t encourage or frowns upon people working from home | 20.999999999999999% |
| 2023 | My employer doesn’t encourage or frowns upon people working from home | 20.000000000000001% |
| 2022 | I need to work in the office a certain number of days / on particular days / amount of time | 50.0% |
| 2023 | I need to work in the office a certain number of days / on particular days / amount of time | 46.000000000000002% |
Notes
Respondents who have the ability to work from home, and would like to do so more often, were asked the following question:
-Which of the below are barriers for you working from home more often?
Data calculation/treatment
The researchers used a combination of pre-survey quotas and post-survey weighting to ensure results are broadly representative of all New Zealanders by age, gender, region and ethnicity.
For more information
Data provided by
Dataset name
New Zealand’s Internet Insights: By wave 2023
Webpage:
https://internetnz.nz/new-zealands-internet-insights/new-zealands-internet-insights-2023/
How to find the data
Internet NZ sent the aggregated data directly to Figure.NZ for the purpose of publication.
Import & extraction details
File as imported: New Zealand’s Internet Insights: By wave 2023
From the dataset New Zealand’s Internet Insights: By wave 2023, this data was extracted:
- Sheet: Q52
- Range:
D12:H22 - Provided: 55 data points
This data forms the table Internet - Barriers to work from home more often 2019–2023.
Dataset originally released on:
February 2024
About this dataset
In 2018 InternetNZ conducted a consolidated research project that incorporated three historical research projects for both the former NZRS, and InternetNZ. This project covered business and consumer use and attitudes towards domain names, as well as public perceptions of the Internet in general. In 2019 they have replicated a section of this research project, to understand any changes in consumer perceptions of the Internet. The survey follows the same processes for 2018, however from 2019 onwards, the survey focused only on consumer use of and perceptions of the Internet.
Method of collection/Data provider
This was a survey a total of 1,001 people online (803 consumers, and 198 consumers who also manage or own a business)
For the 2023 data, fieldwork was conducted from 15th to 22nd November 2023.
The maximum margin of error on the total group n=1,001 is +/-3.1% at the 95% confidence interval.