How Much Work from Home Is There in the United States? - Jose Maria Barrero, Nicholas Bloom, Shelby Buckman, and Steven J. Davis

As of 2022, 15% of workers worked in a fully remote capacity in a typical week in the ACS, 14% in the SWAA, and 10% in the CPS. [...] Presumably, however, the survey goal is to elicit information about the extent of remote work – regardless of whether the pandemic played a role in determining the extent of such work. [...] 7 How We Investigate the Effects of the CPS Question Design To investigate these concerns, we fielded the CPS questions on remote work to one quarter of the sample in the October 2023 wave of the SWAA. [...] The diary records each activity of the DP over the course of the 24 hours, the duration of the activity (or start and stop times), where the activity took place, and with whom (if relevant). [...] The granular nature of the time-use data lets us estimate the percent of full workdays performed at home or other remote location, the percent of workhours performed remotely, and the percent of workers who engaged in any remote work in a typical day.