Barriers preventing people in New Zealand from working from home more often

2023, % of people who would like to work from home more often

The following information applies to all values in the table. Year: 2023, Survey question: Which of the below are barriers for you working from home more often?, Grouping variable: Total, Category: Total
Response	% of people who would like to work from home more often
My laptop or mobile phone isn’t good enough	5.9999999999999998%
My internet speed isn’t fast enough	10.000000000000001%
I don’t have a space at home to work	8.0000000000000002%
I have too many face to face meetings, I need to be at work	20.000000000000001%
My employer doesn’t offer the technological support for me to work from home	8.0000000000000002%
My employer doesn’t offer flexible working options	16.0000000000000003%
Other	13.0000000000000004%
My employer doesn’t encourage or frowns upon people working from home	20.000000000000001%
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

https://internetnz.nz/sites/default/files/New_Zealand_Internet_insights.pdf

Data provided by

InternetNZ

Dataset name

New Zealand’s Internet Insights 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 2023

From the dataset New Zealand’s Internet Insights 2023, this data was extracted:

Sheet: Q52
Range: C12:Y22
Provided: 242 data points

This data forms the table Internet - Barriers to work from home more often 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)
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.

Barriers preventing people in New Zealand from working from home more often

2023, % of people who would like to work from home more often

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