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52.5 percent of workers in financial activities teleworked in June 2026

July 29, 2026

Among major industries in June 2026, telework rates were highest in financial activities (52.5 percent), information (47.2 percent), and professional and business services (41.8 percent). The telework rate measures the number of people who teleworked or worked at home for pay as a percentage of people who were working.

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Percent of employed people by telework status and industry, June 2026
Industry	Teleworked all hours	Teleworked some hours	Did not telework or work at home for pay
Financial activities	27.1	25.4	47.5
Finance and insurance	31.7	27.2	41.0
Real estate and rental and leasing	16.0	21.0	62.9
Information	25.1	22.1	52.8
Professional and business services	24.0	17.8	58.2
Professional and technical services	32.1	23.8	44.2
Management, administrative, and waste services	9.1	6.9	84.0
Public administration	7.2	14.2	78.6
Manufacturing	8.0	11.6	80.5
Education and health services	8.5	9.5	82.0
Educational services	7.1	11.4	81.6
Health care and social assistance	9.2	8.6	82.2
Other services	8.3	9.7	82.0
Wholesale and retail trade	5.8	6.3	87.9
Wholesale trade	9.7	11.9	78.5
Retail trade	5.0	5.3	89.6
Construction	3.5	6.7	89.8
Transportation and utilities	4.0	6.0	90.0
Utilities	7.6	16.8	75.6
Transportation and warehousing	3.4	4.1	92.6
Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction	3.8	5.3	90.9
Leisure and hospitality	3.3	4.5	92.3
Arts, entertainment, and recreation	8.1	10.8	81.1
Accommodation and food services	1.6	2.3	96.1
Note: Data are not seasonally adjusted and may not sum to 100 due to rounding.

Among the detailed industries with the highest telework rates were finance and insurance (within financial activities) at 59.0 percent and professional and technical services (part of professional and business services) at 55.8 percent.

Leisure and hospitality was among the major industries with the lowest rates of telework, at 7.7 percent. Within the industry, the rate was 18.9 percent for arts, entertainment, and recreation and 3.9 percent for accommodation and food services.

These telework data are from the Current Population Survey (CPS) and are not seasonally adjusted. Data refer to employed people who teleworked or worked at home for pay during the CPS reference week.

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Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Economics Daily, 52.5 percent of workers in financial activities teleworked in June 2026 at https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2026/52-5-percent-of-workers-in-financial-activities-teleworked-in-june-2026.htm (visited July 30, 2026).

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