Employers’ push to get American workers back into the office appears to be working.
Two new data shows that fewer than 26% of U.S. households have someone working remotely at least one day a week, down sharply from a peak of 37% in early 2021 Census Bureau Household Pulse Survey. The data shows that only seven states plus Washington, D.C., have a remote work rate of more than 33%, which is lower than the 31 states and Washington, D.C., in the middle of the epidemic.
The reversal reflects the continued push by many employers to return employees to the office.Remote workers have Accused of shrinking profits and Cities lose billions of dollars, Recession fears undermine their ability to require teleworking Welfare them won At the beginning of the epidemic, the labor market was completely favorable to them.Some firms, including Goldman Sachs Group Inc., now expect the economy to return After five days in the office, Despite plenty of boardroom disagreement, nearly three-quarters of organizations see RTOs as the most likely topic of discussion Instigate leadership conflict.
At the state level, data shows that work-from-home rates have declined from pandemic highs in all 50 states. But the uneven pace of decline suggests there is no unified explanation for the trend, but rather the result of a hodgepodge of factors. migrantsocial economy, gender and Race Factor, maybe even politics — Democratic states tend to have higher rates of remote work than Republican states.
Illustrating the complexity: Remote work rates have dropped by half to around post-pandemic lows in states like Mississippi and Louisiana, which have been unable to widely embrace remote work due to their reliance on in-person industries like manufacturing.Oil and gas, and more white-collar country welcome It’s, like California and Connecticut.
new york city worker run away Home prices have surged in towns like Greenwich, Connecticut, during the pandemic, driving a boom in home sales and remote work rates. Now, they may not be moving back, but they are commuting to the city. As Connecticut’s work-from-home rate drops to 28% from a peak of 46% in early 2021, average ridership along the Metro-North rail line that connects the state to New York City and its offices has risen to levels not seen before the pandemic. Compared with the level, it has increased by about 70%, compared with only 20% at the beginning of 2021.
“People leave New York City, they’re not going to sell their homes and go back,” Bill Ravis, founder of William Ravis Real Estate in Connecticut, said in an interview. “They’re here to stay and they’re making adjustments to the community.”
The latest census data also highlights that employee demand for remote work exceeds the number of companies offering remote work. Across the 157 largest U.S. metro areas, more than half of job applications in August were for fully remote or hybrid positions, according to LinkedIn data generated by Bloomberg, but hiring for those positions has been declining since the start of 2022, according to Indeed Company display. Colorado is widely viewed as a work-from-home haven and is one of the few states where more than a third of the state maintains a work-from-home share, according to LinkedIn data. In August, 76% of Colorado Springs job applications were for fully remote or hybrid positions. .
Some areas are taking advantage of this scarcity. Alabama’s work-from-home rate is just 15%, according to Pulse data $10,000 for remote workers They moved to the shallows area in the northwest part of the state. So far this year, the program has attracted roughly the same number of applications as it did for all of 2021 and 2022, about 3,400.
All 50 states pale in comparison to the metropolitan areas of the largest cities.In Washington, D.C., where government officials Don’t want to go back Data shows that more than 50% of their offices work remotely. Likewise, Seattle, Boston and San Francisco all have rates near or above 40%. Average office attendance in ten major U.S. cities remains about 50% of pre-pandemic levels and no higher than in early 2023, according to data from security firm Kastle Systems International LLC.
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