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37% of jobs in the United States can be performed entirely at home https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30802137 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30802137

• gruez 5y ago
  >37% of jobs in the United States can be performed entirely at home And the second top level comment from that: >The coding used by this survey is a joke. If 40% of an occupation says they work outdoors that's below 50% so it's bucketed into the work from home category on that criterion. I think if even 20% of a job is saying they work outdoors that's pretty strong evidence you're missing some information about what the other 80% are doing in their job that prevents it from being a work from home job. The net result of their setup is obviously a vast overestimate so take the 37% number with a grain of salt.
• devoutsalsa 5y ago
  Pedantic comment. 37% is a minority of jobs.
  • nuclearnice3 5y ago
    Do you believe you are correcting an error where someone claimed otherwise?
  • ashtonkem 5y ago
    How much of a minority matters though. There is a big social and economic difference between (number made up) 5% of jobs and 37% of jobs. Even if it never goes higher, that takes remote from a rare and exotic thing to a full third of the work force.
• IMTDb 5y ago
  As shown in the comments over there, the article is very quick in drawing conclusions that jobs can be done fully remotely. Eg: In Q17, the respondent have to say that they work outdoors every day. If the majority does only say that they works outdoors some days - or even most days - the algorithm infers that the job can be done fully from home.