Remote work rates drop as employers push for return to office

Remote work rates overview: 

• Who: Less than 26% of U.S. households still have someone working from home at least one day a week.
• Why: The data shows that fewer work-from-home jobs are available and the desire for those jobs outpaces the number of those jobs.
• Where: Census data on work from home rates were taken from across the United States.

New data shows that less than 26% of U.S. households have someone working from home at least one day a week, after that rate soared above 37% in early 2021, according to Bloomberg.

The research comes from a Household Pulse Survey from the U.S. Census taken between Sept. 20 and Oct. 2. The data is broken down by states with seven states maintaining a work from home rate higher than 33% and all 50 states seeing the rates drop from their pandemic highs, Bloomberg wrote.

Desire for remote work, however, has remained as 157 of the largest metro areas in the country saw half of job applications for remote or hybrid work jobs in August, according to a Bloomberg analysis of LinkedIn data. Those remote or hybrid job postings, however, have dropped since 2022.

Less than 13% of respondents said someone in their household works from home five or more days a week, about 5% said someone works from home three or four days a week and nearly 8% said someone works from home one or two days a week of the more than 256 million Americans surveyed by the Census.

More than 34% of those ages 25-39 say someone in their household works from home at least 1 day per week

The work-from-home rates were also divided up by age, with 11% of respondents age 65 and above saying that someone in their household worked from home at least one day per week. That compares to more than 34% of those ages 25 to 39 saying someone in their household at least one day a week from home in their household.

Nearly 27% of male respondents said someone in their household works from home at least one day per week while nearly 25% of female respondents said the same.

Ninety-eight percent of respondents in a 2023 State of Remote Work report released earlier this year said they would like to work remotely at least part time. 

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