20% of US Workers Are Expected to Work From Home Permanently

While just 5% of the workforce in the US worked from home prior to the pandemic, 20% are expected to work from home permanently.

Read the paper Why Working from Home Will Stick.

See also:

• 45% of jobs can be done remotely so there is still much room to grow.
• Two-thirds of remote workers want to continue to work remotely but not everyone who wants to continue to work from home will be able to.
• Not having to commute for five hours is equivalent to a 10 percent raise and the paper notes a 4.6% increase in productivity (although that is debatable).
• The 20% will be mostly highly educated workers leading to growing inequality due to remote work.

Links to this note

• Remote Work Is Not Necessarily Better for the Environment

  While not having to commute is equivalent pay raise, it’s not necessarily better for the environment.

• § What Is the Market Value of Working Remote?

  We can come up with a valuation of remote work by looking at a few signals: what you would forgo, what do you gain, what others gain, and what others lose.

• Working from Home Reduces Your Carbon Footprint 58%

  A new study on the climate impact of teleworking found that switching from working onsite to working from home full time can reduce up to 58% of work’s carbon footprint. Hybrid schedules have some improvement (11% to 29%). Working one day from home has no benefit.

• Remote Work Permanence

  It’s becoming clear that remote work isn’t going anywhere. A large portion of the workforce continues to work from home. Return to office stagnated. Office real estate value is plummetting.