Working from Home

A survey published today by Maru/Blue Public Opinion Research North America finds that if given the choice to return to the office they were in before the pandemic, a majority (63%) of those Americans working from home prefer to keep it that way while the remaining amount (37%) want to return.

The bottom line: of the one quarter (26%) of Americans who have been working from home since the pandemic began, a total of one in six (16%) prefer to remain doing so while one in 10 (10%) prefer to return to the office setting.

Putting this in perspective, the current adult population of the United States is 229,905,048. Of that population, 59,775,312 adults who were employees in an office setting with other employees prior to the pandemic have been working from home – and of that group, roughly 39 million have been working from home full-time compared with roughly 21 million who have been working from home most of the time.