In the 1st quarter of 2026, the employed population (5,300.8 thousand people) decreased by 0.7% (38.7 thousand) from the previous quarter and increased by 2.3% (119.4 thousand) from one year before.
The share of the employed population who has teleworked, that is who has worked from home using information and communication technologies, was 21.1% (1,118.9 thousand people), 0.1 percentage points (pp) less than in the 4th quarter of 2025 and 0.2 pp more than in the 1st quarter of that year.
The unemployed population, estimated at 346.3 thousand people, increased by 6.1% (20.0 thousand) from the previous quarter and decreased by 5.3% (19.5 thousand) from a year earlier.
The unemployment rate stood at 6.1%, up 0.3 pp from the previous quarter, but down 0.5 pp in the year-on-year comparison.
The labour underutilisation covered 588.0 thousand people, increasing by 2.9% (16.8 thousand) from the previous quarter and decreasing by 6.4% (40.4 thousand) from a year before. The labour underutilisation rate (10.2%) increased by 0.3 p.p. from the previous quarter and decreased by 0.9 pp from the same quarter of 2025.
The inactive population aged 16 and over (3,738.8 thousand) has increased by 0.2% (8.7 thousand) from the previous quarter and decreased by 0.3% (12.0 thousand) from a year earlier.
