Working from home is far more common in 2025 than 2019

More than 1 in 4 paid American workdays were spent remotely in early 2025, maintaining a pattern set as the COVID-19 pandemic subsided.

Line chart showing growth of work from home starting in 2003.

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2025 data is preliminary.

Chart: The Conversation, CC-BY-NDSource: Jose Maria Barrero, Nicholas Bloom, and Steven J. Davis, "Why working from home will stick"Get the dataEmbed Download imageCreated with Datawrapper