Five years after the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted office life, American workplaces are settling into a new rhythm. Employees in remote-friendly jobs now spend an average of 2.3 days each week working from home, a research team that tracks remote employment has found. And when you look at all workers – and not just those in remote-friendly positions – they’re working remotely 1.4 days a week, or 28% of the time.
That’s a huge change from 2019, when remote work accounted for only 7% of the nation’s paid workdays, even if it’s down from the height of the pandemic in 2020, when 61.5% of all work was remote. And it’s a giant leap from 1965, the dawn of telework. At that time, fewer than 0.5% of all paid workdays were out of the office, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
As management professors who study remote work and collaboration, we’ve learned a lot about remote work’s challenges and its often underappreciated advantages. In analyzing the latest data, we’ve observed that employers and employees are still trying to strike the balance between working from home and at the office. That’s why employers’ requirements for in-person work don’t always align with their employees’ preferences. - The Conversation
Monday, March 17, 2025
Working from home is still very much an option
With all the headlines about people being pointlessly - indeed, worse than pointlessly - forced back into workplaces, you may have gained a different impression.
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ICYMI, placing Veterans Crisis Line responders in workspaces with other VA and federal employees would create problems, especially considering the sensitivity of their work.
ReplyDelete“You cannot just pack responders in a room like sardines because they’re all talking on the phone,” the supervisor said. The VCL supervisor said that remote work helped with recruitment, as the program had “drained the pool of applicants” in the areas where the call centers were.