The same percentage of employed people who worked remotely in 2023 is the same as the previous year, a survey found

The same percentage of employed people who worked remotely in 2023 is the same as the previous year, a survey found

Don’t call it work from home any more, just call it work. According to new data, what once seemed like a pandemic necessity has become the new norm for many Americans.

Every year, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) releases the results of its American time use survey, which asks Americans how much time they spend doing various activities, from work to leisure.

The most recent survey results, released at the end of June, show that the same percentage of employed people who did at least some remote work in 2023 is the same percentage as those who did remote work in 2022.

In other words, it’s the first stabilization in the data since before the pandemic, when only a small percentage of workers did remote work, and a sign that remote work is here to stay.

  • kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
    7·
    4 months ago

    You’re not any longer bound to your city or your county

    And neither are people in every other country, including low wage countries…

    • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
      81·
      4 months ago

      That’s always been the case though. He’s have always outsourced to other countries but they can’t do it completely because the quality of the work just isn’t there. Because they’re not trained.

      • kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        4 months ago

        the quality of the work just isn’t there. Because they’re not trained.

        That hasn’t stopped thousands of companies from trying it, though.

        Often more than once… (including the company I used to work for - they’ve outsourced, and re-homed a couple of times in the years I worked there.)

      • kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
        1·
        4 months ago

        One of the vendors I used to deal with had support engineers in 4 different time zones so there would be someone on day shift no matter when they needed to deal with a problem.

      • EatATaco@lemm.eeEnglish
        11·
        4 months ago

        That’s an incentive to hire everyone in one hemisphere, unless we’re talking about a world wide company that needs people in multiple times zones.