Less Than 1% of Employees in Kazakhstan Work Remotely

Remote work remains rare in Kazakhstan. While 48% of employees worldwide work either remotely or in a hybrid format, the figure in Kazakhstan is almost 100 times lower, Orda.kz reports, citing Finprom analysts.

At the end of 2025, only 44,200 out of 9.3 million employed people in Kazakhstan worked remotely. That is about 0.47%. Remote work has never become a mass phenomenon in the country.

Interest in the format is growing, but slowly. In 2023, 42,500 people worked remotely. By 2025, that number had risen by 4%. However, the share of remote workers has barely changed, as total employment is growing faster.

Despite the positive dynamics, remote employment in Kazakhstan remains at an extremely low level and has not yet had a significant impact on the structure of the labour market.

Most remote workers, about 40,000, use their own equipment. At the same time, the number of employees provided with equipment by their employer has also increased, from 2,600 in 2024 to 4,200 in 2025.

Women work from home more often than men: 25,100 compared with 19,100. There is also a clear urban bias: 28,200 people work remotely in cities, compared with only 16,000 in rural areas.

By region, the leaders are the Turkestan region with 8,200 remote workers, Astana with 8,100, and the Almaty region with 6,400. The highest share of remote workers was recorded in Astana and the Mangistau region, at 1.1% each.

Against the backdrop of global trends, Kazakhstan is lagging significantly. Worldwide, about 48% of the workforce is involved in remote or hybrid work, while in Kazakhstan the figure remains below 1%.

Original author: Daria Malkova

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