48.3% of employees in Washington, D.C. worked remotely in 2021, according to newly released Census data.
Recent statistics from the U.S. Census Bureau indicate that Washington, DC has pioneered the way for remote work, with Seattle close behind with 46.8 percent of employees working from home.
45.6% of San Francisco’s workforce worked remotely, compared to 38.8% and 38.7% in Austin and Atlanta, respectively.
In contrast, only 10 percent of employees in Memphis, El Paso, Texas, and Wichita, Kansas, respectively, worked remotely.
The United States stated that approximately 18 percent of its workforce participated in remote work, almost three times as many as before the outbreak.
Work and commuting are important to American culture, therefore the broad adoption of working from home is a defining characteristic of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a statement released by a Census Bureau statistician on Thursday.
With the number of people who predominantly work from home tripling in only two years, the epidemic has had a profound effect on the American commute environment.
The US Census Bureau revealed that Washington, D.C., Seattle, San Francisco, Austin, and Atlanta had the highest percentage of their workforces working from home, while Memphis, El Paso, Texas, and Wichita, Kansas, have the lowest percentages.
In 2021, three times as many individuals worked from home as before the pandemic, as a result of the boom in work-at-home culture during the height of COVD.
Prior to the pandemic, between 2017 and 2019, approximately 6 to 7 percent of Washington, D.C.’s labor force reported working remotely from home, roughly mirroring the national average.
With a remote work rate of 33.1%, the nation’s capital ranked third among metropolitan regions with populations of over 1 million, slightly behind San Jose and the San Francisco Bay Area.
Washington, Maryland, Colorado, and Massachusetts ranked among the states with the greatest number of home-based workers in the United States in 2021, with each state reporting approximately 24 percent of its labor force working remotely.
Mississippi placed last with only 6.3% of employees working from home, an increase from 3.1% in 2019.
Wyoming reported nearly 8.9 percent, followed by Louisiana at 8.4 percent.
William Frey, a demographer at the Brookings Institution, told the Washington Post that the most recent work-from-home statistics coincide with college education.
Washington, D.C., and Seattle are two of the nation’s most educated cities, with 63 and 68 percent of adults aged 25 and older holding a bachelor’s degree or higher, respectively.
San Francisco, Austin, and Atlanta came in second, third, and fourth, respectively, according to recent remote-work statistics.
Frey told the Post: ‘These are magnets for younger, well-educated, computer-savvy folks who are typically related to the tech business and are well-positioned to work from home.’
Fear of the coronavirus, which was primarily responsible for the rise in work-from-home culture, has decreased, with the latest report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics indicating that in August, just 6.5% of workers worked remotely owing to COVID.
It is consistent with a survey conducted by the Pew Research Center earlier this year, which found that those with a bachelor’s degree are more likely to work from home than those without one.
The survey revealed that 65 percent of college graduates were more inclined than their colleagues to claim their employment can be performed remotely.
The fear of the coronavirus, which was primarily responsible for the rise of the work-from-home culture, has decreased, with the latest report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics indicating that in August, just 6.5% of workers worked remotely due to COVID.
Since the epidemic, more Americans who can work from home are working from home, and higher-income individuals with a four-year college degree are more likely to work from home than those without one (right) (left)
Thursday saw the release of the 2021 American Community Survey, which contained the most recent data from the Census Bureau.
The study normally depends on responses from 3.5 million homes in order to provide 11 billion estimations annually regarding commuting hours, internet access, family life, income, education levels, disabilities, military service, and work.
The projections guide the allocation of hundreds of billions of dollars in federal spending. Response rates improved considerably from 2020 to 21.