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34% of employed persons do some work at home on days they work in 2022
06/22/2023
In 2022, 34 percent of employed persons did some or all of their work at home on days they
worked, and 69 percent of employed persons did some or all of their work at their workplace.
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In 2021-22, 14% of the U.S. population, or 37.1 million people, provide unpaid eldercare
09/21/2023
Fourteen percent of the U.S. population provides eldercare--unpaid care for someone with a
condition related to aging--to others. On a given day, 28 percent of eldercare providers
engage in eldercare, spending an average of 3.6 hours in eldercare activities.
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About 1 in 4 workers occasionally work at home and more than half have flexible schedules
09/24/2019
In 2017-18, 25 percent of wage and salary workers worked at home at least occasionally,
and 15 percent of wage and salary workers had days they only worked at home. Fifty-seven
percent of workers had a flexible schedule in which they could vary the times they began
and stopped working.
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66% of wage and salary workers are able to take paid leave from their jobs in 2017-18
08/29/2019
In 2017-18, 66 percent of wage and salary workers had access to paid leave at their jobs,
an increase from 2011. Seventy-eight percent of workers had access to unpaid leave.
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- Access to and Use of Leave
- American Time Use Survey
- Unpaid Eldercare in the United States
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