According to the Home Employment Observatory, 10,8% of Reunion households have someone working at home. Home employment on the island concerns 57,241 people : 35,715 private employers and 21,526 home-based employees or childminders, according to the latest annual data available. If on average, nearly one in ten Reunion Islanders resorts to home employment, this share increases with age and reaches 45% within the population aged 80 and over. The use of home employment is, on the other hand, less common among parents of young children. Informal care is very developed there, particularly due to a relatively low female employment rate. Nevertheless, for several years, individual reception is progressing in Reunion, whether it concerns the reception at home of childminders, in foster care homes or childcare at the parents’ home.
