Number of employees who worked home by industry U.S. 2018

Published by Statista Research Department, Feb 1, 2023
From 2017 to 2018, around 7.96 million of those employed in the professional and business services industry in the United States worked from home. Education and health services had the most employees working from home at 8.82 million.

Number of employees who worked from home in the United States in 2017-18, by industry (in 1,000s)

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Release date

September 2019

Region

United States

Survey time period

2017 to 2018

Age group

14 years and older

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