Roughly a third (34 per cent) of U.S. employees say they worked from home at least part of the week in 2022, down from 2021 (38 per cent) and up from 2019 (24 per cent), according to a report by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The report, which analyzed data provided by more than 170,000 workers, found, on average, employees who worked from home did so for roughly five hours per day, while those who worked onsite did so for nearly eight hours.
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Workers with higher levels of education were more likely to work from home than those who had less education. More than half (54 per cent) of employees with a bachelor’s degree or higher worked from home at least part of the week, compared to just 18 per cent of workers with a high school diploma and no college.
Women (41 per cent) were more likely than men (28 per cent) to work from home for all or part of the week. While men reported working longer days onsite than women (8.3 hours compared to 7.7 hours), both men and women reported working an average of 5.4 hours on days they worked from home.
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