More Americans Now Work Full-Time From Home Than Walk and Bike To Office Jobs (qz.com)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Quartz: In the United States, the past decade has been marked by booming cities, soaring rents, and a crush of young workers flocking to job-rich downtowns. Although these are heady days for pavement-pounding urbanists, a record 2.6% of American employees now go to their jobs without ever leaving their houses. That's more than walk and bike to work combined. These numbers come from a Quartz analysis of data from the U.S. census and the American Community Survey. The data show that telecommuting has grown faster than any other way of getting to work -- up 159% since 2000. By comparison, the number of Americans who bike to work has grown by 86% over the same period, while the number who drive or carpool has grown by only 12%. We've excluded both part-time and self-employed workers from these and all results. Though managers are the largest group of remote workers, as a percentage of a specific occupation computer programmers are the most over-represented. Nearly 8% of programmers now work from home, following a staggering increase of nearly 400% since 2000.

Comments

Working from home is career suicide

[Anonymous Coward]

You better be the best of the freaking best, because you're one step away from being outsourced to someone else remote who costs 1/8th of what you do.

Re:Working from home is career suicide

[green1]

I think the fallacy is in thinking that someone who is expendable and can do their work anywhere in the world suddenly becomes more expendable if they do that same work at home vs at the office. I don't think that's the case.

Either the work you do can be done from anywhere (in which case it doesn't matter where you actually do it, home, office, or anywhere else). Or the work you do requires you to sometimes be in a specific location, in which case it doesn't matter where you are the rest of the time.

If your job is at risk of being moved to a foreign country, simply doing the same work at the office instead of at home won't save you.