Southern Region’s Co-Working Hubs As evident from Figure 6, the three Regional Assemblies of Ireland identified a total of 105 co-working hubs – both privately and publicly owned – that were located in the Southern region, as of September 2020.
91,300 of these workers already based in the Southern region. Furthermore, the three Regional Assemblies of Ireland – using the above figures, research from the European Commission 20 and data from Census 2016 – estimates the number of private sector workers that are capable of operating remotely in each of the local authorities based in the Southern region, as evident from Table 6.
In terms of Local Authorities, the highest number of co-working hubs were located in Cork City and Cork County (17 in each). This was followed by Limerick City and County (14), Kerry, Waterford City and County (both 13), Clare (11), Wexford, Carlow (both 6), Tipperary and Kilkenny (both 4). As previously stated, the three Regional Assemblies of Ireland identified 387,000 private sector workers that are capable of operating remotely in Ireland, with
Table 6: Estimated Number of private sector workers capable of operating remotely in the Southern Region, Q2 2020
Estimated Number of Private Sector Jobs Capable of Operating Remotely
Local Authorities
Cork County
29,074
Limerick City and County
10,555
Cork City
10,333
Wexford
7,163
Kerry
6,775
Tipperary
6,396
Clare
6,350
Kilkenny
6,061
Waterford City and County
5,761
Carlow
2,831
Southern Total
91,300
Source: Regional Assemblies of Ireland
20 https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/bitstream/JRC120578/jrc120578_report_covid_confinement_measures_final_updated_good.pdf
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