The number of people primarily working from home tripled between 2019 and 2021, per survey results released by the U.S. Census Bureau. 17.9% of people primarily worked from home in 2021, compared with 5.7% in 2019, per the survey results.
The new figures provide a fresh look into how the pandemic upended how Americans work, play and live.17.9% of people primarily worked from home in 2021, compared with 5.7% in 2019, per the survey results., worked from home in 2021, the highest percentage of remote workers in the country, per the Census Bureau.
The states with the highest percentage of residents working from home were Washington, Maryland and Colorado, all around 24%. The average commuting time by private vehicle in 2021 was on average two minutes shorter than in 2019, per the data.last year that it would not use its 1-year estimates from 2020 "because of the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on data collection."
The newly released survey results provide one of the most reliable indications yet of the pandemic's impact on Americans' work-from-home habits.Work and commuting are central to American life, so the widespread adoption of working from home is a defining feature of the COVID-19 pandemic," Michael Burrows, a statistician in the Census Bureau’s Journey-to-Work and Migration Statistics Branch, said in a statement.
"With the number of people who primarily work from home tripling over just a two-year period, the pandemic has very strongly impacted the commuting landscape in the United States."Axios on facebook
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