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On the days they worked in 2016, 83 percent of those employed did some or all of their work at their workplace and 22 percent did some or all of their work at home. In 2003, 87 percent of those employed did some or all of their work at their workplace and 19 percent did some or all of their work at home.
Characteristic | 2016 | 2003 | ||
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Worked at home | Worked at their workplace | Worked at home | Worked at their workplace | |
Total, 15 years and over |
22.3% | 83.2% | 18.6% | 87.2% |
Sex |
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Men |
21.3 | 84.0 | 18.1 | 88.3 |
Women |
23.6 | 82.2 | 19.3 | 85.9 |
Employment status |
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Total, full-time workers |
22.4 | 84.1 | 17.9 | 89.0 |
Total, part-time workers |
22.1 | 79.6 | 21.7 | 79.6 |
Men, full-time workers |
21.8 | 83.9 | 17.8 | 89.7 |
Men, part-time workers |
17.3 | 85.0 | 20.1 | 78.4 |
Women, full-time workers |
23.2 | 84.3 | 18.1 | 87.9 |
Women, part-time workers |
24.7 | 76.6 | 22.6 | 80.2 |
Jobholding status |
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Single jobholders |
21.0 | 83.7 | 16.8 | 87.9 |
Multiple jobholders |
32.1 | 80.0 | 32.9 | 81.9 |
Educational attainment, 25 years and over |
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Less than a high school diploma |
8.8 | 85.5 | 8.6 | 92.3 |
High school graduates, no college |
12.0 | 89.8 | 12.9 | 90.7 |
Some college or associate degree |
20.6 | 85.4 | 18.6 | 87.3 |
Bachelor's degree only |
31.6 | 77.2 | 28.0 | 82.4 |
Advanced degree |
43.1 | 70.7 | 39.0 | 76.4 |
Footnotes:
(1) Work at home refers to both scheduled and unscheduled work done at home. |
Among workers age 25 and over, 43 percent of those with an advanced degree performed some work at home on days worked in 2016, compared with 12 percent of those with a high school diploma and 9 percent of those with less than a high school diploma.
These data are from the American Time Use Survey. For more information, see "American Time Use Survey — 2016 Results" (HTML) (PDF). For additional charts, see Graphics for Economic News Releases: American Time Use Survey.
Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Economics Daily, On days they worked, 22 percent of employed did some or all of their work at home in 2016 at https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2017/on-days-they-worked-22-percent-of-employed-did-some-or-all-of-their-work-at-home-in-2016.htm (visited October 31, 2024).