{"id":113524,"date":"2020-04-09T12:58:25","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T16:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rbach.net\/?p=113524"},"modified":"2021-06-26T22:40:40","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T02:40:40","slug":"wfh-was-growing-before-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wfh-was-growing-before-covid\/","title":{"rendered":"WFH Was Growing Before COVID"},"content":{"rendered":"

Updated 05\/17\/2020 –<\/strong> Statista<\/a> published this chart which shows the top reasons for WFH in 2019, as cited by U.S. remote workers.<\/p>\n

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\"WFH<\/a>Work from home (WFH) – the practice of working remotely – has exploded with the COVID-19 pandemic. With social distancing<\/a> in place, millions of more workers<\/strong> around the world started working from home<\/strong> in March 2020. But WFM is not a new trend. Computer Economics<\/a><\/em> reports<\/a> that over the past 11 years work from home has grown for many reasons.<\/p>\n

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Despite the pandemic, the trend toward telecommuting was already well underway according to Computer Economics<\/em>. To measure how much telecommuting is occurring<\/strong>, they polled IT managers<\/strong>\u00a0and asked them to estimate the percentage of their total staff that works from home at one of three levels.<\/p>\n

In the 2019 report Trends in Telecommuting in the IT Workforce<\/a>, Computer Economics <\/em>found that 92% of IT shops allowed some form of remote work:<\/strong><\/p>\n