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The BLS recently reported that at its peak, only 7% of Americans were working from home, so this demographic is probably too small to have much large scale impa
by lkrubner 4y ago
The BLS recently reported that at its peak, only 7% of Americans were working from home, so this demographic is probably too small to have much large scale impact on the productivity numbers. If there is stagnation in the productivity numbers, we should look at what the other 93% of workers are doing.
- svnt 4y agoHow did they conduct the measure? 7% is nowhere near what the real estate picture says.
- zeroonetwothree 4y agoAccording to this it was 35% at the peak, and 7% is the current figure: https://www.nbcnews.com/data-graphics/data-remote-workers-declining-may-2022-rcna28499 https://www.nbcnews.com/data-graphics/data-remote-workers-de...
- A4ET8a8uTh0 4y agoDamn. Was it really that low? I ran into census data stating the following: "Between 2019 and 2021, the number of people primarily working from home tripled from 5.7% (roughly 9 million people) to 17.9% (27.6 million people), according to new 2021 American Community Survey (ACS) 1-year estimates released today by the U.S. Census Bureau." I Initially thought maybe the issue is average reported over years, but that does not seem to match either so I went to BLS[2] and the 7% number is there, but it is for for April 2022 and not its peak. Chart data suggests double digit average. Please correct me if I am misreading something. [1]https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2022/people-working-from-home.html https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2022/people-w... [2]https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2022/7-7-percent-of-workers-teleworked-due-to-covid-19-in-april-2022.htm https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2022/7-7-percent-of-workers-tel...