Remote Working Capabilities – County Estimates Although the CSO is unable to provide detailed Q2 2020 employment data on a sub- regional 12 and county basis due to sample sizes, the three Regional Assemblies of Ireland have been able to estimate the number of private sector workers that are likely to be capable of operating remotely on a local authority basis, as of Q2 2020.
It is important to reiterate that employment figures quoted in this section relate to the usually resident population in each local authority area; which would include individuals who work and live in the same local authority area and individuals that live in a certain local authority area and commute to work in another local authority area. The potential number of private sector workers capable of operating remotely was notably high in local authorities with high populations, with the highest number of private sector workers capable of operating remotely likely to be in Dublin City (84,702 private sector workers), Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown (39,982), Fingal (34,178), Cork County (29,074) and South Dublin (27,614). Other local authorities that are likely to have a high number of private sector workers capable of operating remotely included Kildare (18,475), Meath (14,659), Wicklow (12,887), Limerick City and County (10,555) and Cork City (10,333).
This can be achieved by using the previously mentioned European Commission research 13 , the regional employment data outlined in the previous section and local authority sectoral employment data from Census 2016, which would be the latest available data with respect to sectoral employment on a local authority basis. As previously mentioned, research from the European Commission has identified which sectors are capable of operating remotely following the outbreak of COVID-19. Such sectors would be in line with the 2 digit NACE codes provided for employment data in each local authority area as part of Census 2016. This allows us to identify the number of private sector workers that were capable of operating remotely for each local authority area as of Census 2016, which can then be expressed as a percentage share of its respective NUTS 2 region at the time of Census 2016, as evident from Tables 7 to 9 in Appendix A. In order to estimate the number of private sector workers that are capable of operating remotely in each local authority area as of Q2 2020, we assume that each local authority area’s share of these type of workers within their own NUTS 2 region have remained unchanged since Census 2016. By applying these county ratios to the actual number of private sector workers capable of operating remotely at a NUTS 2 regional level as of Q2 2020, we can estimate the potential number of workers capable of operating remotely by local authority area 14 for this time period. Using this approach, the three Regional Assemblies of Ireland have estimated the number of private sector workers capable of operating remotely for each local authority area as of Q2 2020, as evident from Table 3 on page 11 of this analysis.
IT IS LIKELY THAT A TOTAL OF 186,476 PRIVATE SECTOR WORKERS IN DUBLIN WERE CAPABLE OF OPERATING REMOTELY.
As per these estimates, it is likely that a total of 186,476 private sector workers in the four Dublin local authorities were capable of operating remotely, while other urban oriented local authorities that are likely to have a high number of private sector workers capable of operating remotely included Limerick City and County (10,555 private sector workers), Cork City (10,333), Galway City (6,620) and Waterford City and County (5,761).
NUTS 3 regions of Ireland
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13 Remote working is referred to as “Teleworking” in the European Commission Research: https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/bitstream/ JRC120578/jrc120578_report_covid_confinement_measures_final_updated_good.pdf 14 Local authority area as of Census 2016
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REGIONAL CO-WORKING ANALYSIS
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