A total of 61 percent of companies in Germany offer the option of working from home, according to the Ifo Institute, a research institution based in Munich, Germany. On average, German companies allow their employees to work from home 6.4 days per month. Germany comes in second place among 17 European countries with an average of one day of home office per week. The UK lands the first position in Europe with 1.5 days per week. When it comes to the situation worldwide, Canada gets an average home office time of 1.7 days per week, the US with 1.4 days per week, and Australia with 1.3 days per week.