📋 Tender Overview
A total of 12766 companies in the formal private sector declared at least one teleworker including workers in remote work mode among their contractors according to figures as of November last year said the Ministry of Labor and Employment Promotion MTPE. While in 2019 only 1040 companies 0.3 of the total had registered at least one teleworker on the payroll In 2020 the beginning of the pandemic 6955 companies were reached on average 2.4 of the total. According to information from the Electronic Worksheet of the formal private sector of Peru 30 out of every 100 largest companies from 101 or more workers hired at least one teleworker during 2022. This proportion decreases as the size of the company is also smaller only 2 out of 100 companies of 1 to 10 workers register at least one teleworker for the same year. That disparity is due to larger companies having more financial capacity to invest in the technology needed to implement telecommuting effectively. This includes the purchase of computer and communication equipment as well as the hiring of personnel specialized in the maintenance and security of these equipment explained the head of the sector Alfonso Adrianzn. The existing data to November 2022 indicates that 3 992 321 people carry out face-to-face work 227347 are teleworkers and 23988 do not have enough information to classify them in one of these two modalities. The total number of workers in the formal private sector totals 4243656. At the company level of 351583 existing in the electronic spreadsheet 12766 had at least 1 teleworker and 338817 had no teleworkers as of November 2022. By sectors and type of occupationThe highest proportion of teleworkers worked in the services sector which managed to concentrate 80.7 during the year 2022. The explanation for this behavior would be that this sector includes a wide range of activities and tasks that can be performed effectively through technology and online collaboration. For example virtual assistants financial advisors and translators are the ones who can perform their tasks without having to be physically present in the workplace. Other economic activities that used teleworkers were commerce 8.3 industry 6.7 mining 2.3 construction 0.9 and agriculture 0.8. Likewise the occupations most related to teleworking were employees of statistical and financial services 11.1 professors of universities ESEP and other higher education institutions 10.1 and employees of administrative services 8.6. In November 2022 48.4 110085 of teleworkers in the formal private sector were men 45.8 104 154 women and 5.8 13 108 did not define. Of the number of teleworkers 71 were between 30 and 65 years old 21 registered up to 29 years 2.1 per cent aged 66 and over and 5.8 do not define. In addition most teleworkers 60.6 from the formal private sector were qualified complete higher education while 39.4 were unskilled workers up to secondary and incomplete higher education.