Story Highlights

  • U.S. workers report working remotely an average of 3.8 days per month
  • In 2020, the average was 5.8 days; before the pandemic, it was 2.4
  • More work remotely during business hours now than did before pandemic
  • Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social
    201·
    1 year ago

    That first graph doesn’t make sense. If you’re going into the office 14 days out of 20 you’re not a remote worker.

    • ricecake@sh.itjust.works
      6·
      1 year ago

      Well, keep in mind that that's among people who have ever worked remotely. So elementary school teachers would potentially get lumped in there, for example, and other jobs that were all remote but are now fully in person again.

      So me, the guy who tries to go in one day a month for the good coffee and pastries day gets averaged out with the 15 teachers and the accountants who were told they have to come back every day for some reason.

    • mwguy@infosec.pubOP
      3·
      1 year ago

      If there are 20 workdays in a typical month, about how many days out of 20 would you telecommute from home instead of going into your workplace?

      Depends really some places consider people who work mostly remote as remote. You're logically correct though. Someone who works remote 14 days out of 20 is a hybrid worker.

    • ricecake@sh.itjust.works
      11·
      1 year ago

      I feel like combining fully remote office workers and must be in person jobs like leads to odd averages like that.

      I feel like I'd be interested in seeing the trend of "percentage of workers working remotely at least X days per week, by year".