Posted on 06/28/2015 4:43:41 PM PDT by CorporateStepsister
With the rise of flexible working schedules, the freelance economy, and video conferencing, more Americans are getting their jobs done without ever heading into an office, according to new data from the American Time Use Survey released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Among all workers, 23% report spending all or part of their day working from home. That’s up from less than 19% in 2003, the first year for which there’s comparable data.
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9-5?
What’s that?
The duration of an eight hour work day.
Working from home = eating Cheetos and watching porn.
I’ve worked 12 hour days going on 25 year.
With LogMeIn, I could easily do three-quarters of my job from home, but it still just doesn’t seem right not to show up. Must be that darn Protestant Work Ethic thing.
Try it on a factory floor where things are actually made instead data being pushed.
2003 to 2015...
19 to 23%...
Yep, the 9-5 is sure disappearing rapidly. Yawn.
Don’t know what planet this person is on...but 9+ hour days are a regular thing.
In the case of my over-rated SIL, it’s doing laundry and talking with relatives on the phone for hours, while somehow ignoring her kids since her husband’s mother is there.
And most of that 1-hour day I want to spend playing Rome 2: Total War.
Oh, and napping. I forgot napping she does at home “working”.
I never understood how 9-5 became the way referred to an eight hour workday. Doesn’t anyone take a lunch break?
Not true. I’ve worked from home and it’s tougher than going to the office itself. You’ve got to remain focused and you’re easily distracted by sidebar issues. It’s not the paradise that many people think it is.
How many people in the labor force work in the service industry, retail sales, construction, factory, or manufacturing?
Out of those working from a desk, how many are in government office jobs dealing with the public?
Out of those working for private companies from a desk, how many never require their employees to come into the office in a week?
This 23% of the workforce number smells like bullstalin.
As opposed to government workers who have to go INTO the office to watch porn on their computer all day.
When I worked, I seldom worked 8 hours a day. I was a legal secretary. If the boss was in trial, it was not unusual to work more than 12 hours a day. Weekends too. The few times I did leave at 5:30 (my supposed quitting time), people would joke that I was leaving early.
Most of the young people I know would never work so much. They think I must have been nuts to work like that. Of course, for the most part, my generation didn’t have the labor saving devices and the concept of working from home was just beginning to catch on toward the end of my career. But the work ethic my generation and previous generations had just isn’t there today.
Hard to maintain a 9 to 5 schedule when you’re limited to 29 hours a week.
I have a friend whose daughter lives in NC. She telecommutes to her job in DC. Far as I know, never goes to the office. High paying job, too.
Flexible work hours, at least to me, let me shift hours around traffic and doctor appointments and such.
But there’s no such thing as a day off anymore, unless you’re on PTO. . .
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