workers are able to work remotely, and of these workers, well over half will seek new employment options if they are not provided continued flexibility. Related: According to Gallup, 56% of all U.S.

Some scholars suggested that the Labor Department’s survey may overcount fully in-person work, though the comparisons among the various surveys aren’t direct.

Outside research, including a monthly survey of workers from researchers at Stanford University and the Census Bureau’s household survey, indicate that remote work remains prevalent, with Stanford’s finding that it accounts for over a quarter of paid full-time workdays in the United States, just slightly down from 33 percent in 2021. But while the Labor Department found that remote work was almost back to prepandemic levels, many other surveys show it is up four- to fivefold. The Labor Department, last week, released data indicating a decline in remote work: 72.5 percent of businesses said their employees rarely or never teleworked last year, up from 60.1 percent in 2021 and quite close to the 76.7 percent that had no such work before the pandemic. Millions of workers, employers, square feet of real estate and dollars of downtown economic retail are wrapped up in the question of how many people are working from home - yet there remain large discrepancies in how remote work is measured.

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