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87% of full-time employed people work on an average weekday in 2024
06/26/2025
In 2024, 87 percent of full-time employed people worked on an average weekday,
compared with 29 percent on an average weekend day. Full-time employed people
averaged 8.4 hours of work on weekdays they worked, and 5.6 hours on weekend
days they worked.
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In 2021-22, 14% of the U.S. population, or 37.1 million people, provide unpaid eldercare
09/21/2023
Fourteen percent of the U.S. population provides eldercare--unpaid care for someone with a
condition related to aging--to others. On a given day, 28 percent of eldercare providers
engage in eldercare, spending an average of 3.6 hours in eldercare activities.
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About 1 in 4 workers occasionally work at home and more than half have flexible schedules
09/24/2019
In 2017-18, 25 percent of wage and salary workers worked at home at least occasionally,
and 15 percent of wage and salary workers had days they only worked at home. Fifty-seven
percent of workers had a flexible schedule in which they could vary the times they began
and stopped working.
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66% of wage and salary workers are able to take paid leave from their jobs in 2017-18
08/29/2019
In 2017-18, 66 percent of wage and salary workers had access to paid leave at their jobs,
an increase from 2011. Seventy-eight percent of workers had access to unpaid leave.
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