WASHINGTON–As also remains the case for most credit unions, new federal data reveal that workers in unexpected jobs continue to clock more time from home than before the pandemic hit.
“It isn’t just white-collar workers logging in from bedrooms instead of boardrooms,” according to the Wall Street Journal. “Lower-income, less-educated and service-industry workers spent more time working from home, on average, last year than before the pandemic struck.”
According to the Labor Department’s American Time Use Survey, employees who worked any time from home spent an average of five hours and 25 minutes a day working from their residences in 2022, about two hours more than in 2019, the year before Covid-19 changed the nature of work, and down just 12 minutes from 2021.
Additional Clarification
The federal government data reflect the average amount of time spent working from home among all employed Americans who did some work from home. The Labor Department numbers include any work done at home and can include one minute checking a company email or a 12-hour shift.
“It strictly includes work done at home and excludes assignments done at a place such as a coffee shop,” the Journal clarified.
“One reason remote work remains more prevalent than before Covid-19 first upended job routines is workers still have a lot of leverage in a labor market that remains historically tight,” the Journal stated. “Employers cling to staff they fought to hire during the pandemic rebound.”
The reporting found that about 8.4% of job postings on Indeed.com advertised remote or hybrid work at the end of May, up threefold from the same period in 2019.
“Still, the share of remote job postings on Indeed fell from a peak of over 10% in February 2022, reflective of a steep decline in tech and other white-collar job openings with high concentrations of remote work,” the Journal said.
The Trend With Lowest Paid Workers
The federal government data found that the lowest-earning Americans who worked from home spent about three more hours laboring at home a day last year than in 2019. Their daily work-from-home time increased one hour and 19 minutes from 2021, while the highest paid spent about 30 fewer minutes on the clock from home last year compared with 2021.
The highest earners still work from home roughly 45 minutes more a day than the lowest earners, the report added.
It’s Called Fresh for a Reason. And We Offer Home Delivery. For Free!
The biggest, best and freshest news reporting in credit unions remains free in ’23! Each morning CUToday.info delivers its daily Fresh Today news update offering the latest headlines and breaking news right to your email, with the easy-to-read headlines format allowing you to click on the stories that interest you most in order to learn more.
If you haven’t yet signed up for the new email solution on which CUToday.info has partnered with ResponseGenius, you can do so here. Signing up requires less than one minute of your time—and it’s free!
Please note that after signing up you may need to go to your Spam/Junk folder and mark the morning headlines email as safe. CUToday.info does not provide its list of readers and emails to outside parties, and we will not be contacting you to sell you an extended warranty or sending you any links so you may cash in on an inheritance you didn’t know was coming.
And did we mention it’s free?
Please note and/or make your IT department or email administrator aware the emails will be coming from the domains CUTodayinfo.com and CUTodayinfoReply.com