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Among the major occupational groups, the telework rates (the number of people who teleworked or worked at home for pay as a percentage of people who were working) were highest in November 2023 for people at work in management, professional, and related occupations (34.8 percent) and sales and office occupations (21.6 percent). Telework rates in these two occupational groups were considerably higher than all others: service occupations (4.0 percent), production, transportation, and material moving occupations (2.5 percent), and natural resources, construction, and maintenance occupations (2.3 percent).
Major occupational group | All hours teleworked | Some hours teleworked | Total |
---|---|---|---|
Management, professional, and related |
16.4 | 18.4 | 34.8 |
Sales and office |
12.0 | 9.6 | 21.6 |
Service |
2.2 | 1.8 | 4.0 |
Production, transportation, and material moving |
1.3 | 1.2 | 2.5 |
Natural resources, construction, and maintenance |
0.7 | 1.5 | 2.3 |
Note: Data are not seasonally adjusted. |
Within management, professional, and related occupations, telework rates in November 2023 ranged from 10.1 percent for workers in health care practitioners and technical occupations to 64.9 percent for workers in computer and mathematical occupations.
Occupation | All hours teleworked | Some hours teleworked | Total |
---|---|---|---|
Computer and mathematical | 37.1 | 27.8 | 64.9 |
Business and financial operations | 28.6 | 26.5 | 55.0 |
Legal | 21.0 | 29.1 | 50.0 |
Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media | 25.6 | 20.0 | 45.5 |
Life, physical, and social science | 14.1 | 24.9 | 38.9 |
Architecture and engineering | 12.2 | 23.3 | 35.5 |
Management | 15.4 | 19.2 | 34.7 |
Community and social services | 12.1 | 19.9 | 32.0 |
Education, training, and library | 4.2 | 9.0 | 13.2 |
Healthcare practitioners and technical | 4.3 | 5.7 | 10.1 |
Note: Estimates may not sum to totals due to rounding. Data are not seasonally adjusted. |
These data are from the Current Population Survey (CPS) and are not seasonally adjusted. To learn more and to obtain additional data about telework, see Telework or work at home for pay. These data refer to employed people who teleworked or worked at home for pay during the CPS reference week.
Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Economics Daily, About 1 in 3 workers in management, professional, and related occupations teleworked, November 2023 at https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2023/about-1-in-3-workers-in-management-professional-and-related-occupations-teleworked-november-2023.htm (visited November 06, 2024).