Posted on 09/16/2022 12:56:41 AM PDT by dennisw
REVEALED: DC is America's WFH home capital, with nearly HALF of workers remaining at home in 2021 - while just 10% in blue collar cities like Memphis, El Paso and Wichita labor remotely
The U.S. Census Bureau's latest report found that 48.3 percent of Washington D.C.'s labor force was working from home in 2021 Following closely behind was Seattle at 46.8, San Francisco at 45.6, Austin at 38.8 and Atlanta at 38.7 percent
Meanwhile, Memphis, El Paso, Texas and Wichita, Kansas, all trailed at the bottom with only 10 percent of employees working from home The US reported that nearly 18 percent of employees were working from home, nearly three times as many as before the pandemic
Washington, D.C. has become America's work from home capital - as 48.3 percent of employees worked remotely in 2021, new Census data revealed.
The U.S. Census Bureau's latest findings showed that DC has paved the way for remote work, with Seattle following close behind with 46.8 percent of employees working from home.
San Francisco had 45.6 percent of its labor force working remotely, while Austin and Atlanta had 38.8 and 38.7 percent, respectively.
Meanwhile, Memphis, El Paso, Texas and Wichita, Kansas, all trailed at the bottom with only 10 percent of employees working from home.
Overall, the US reported that nearly 18 percent of its workforce was enjoying remote work, nearly three times the pre-pandemic rate.
'Work and commuting are central to American life, so the widespread adoption of working from home is a defining feature of the Covid-19 pandemic,' Census Bureau statistician Michael Burrows said in a statement on Thursday.
'With the number of people who primarily work from home tripling over just a two-year period, the pandemic has very strongly impacted the commuting landscape in the U.S.'
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Washington, D.C. nearly mirrored the national remote work average prior to the pandemic, reporting about 6 to 7 percent of its labor force working from home between 2017 and 2019.
Among metro areas with a population of over 1 million, the capital ranked third in remote work with 33.1 percent, just below the San Jose metro-area at 34.8 percent and the San Francisco Bay Area at 35.1 percent.
Washington, Maryland, Colorado and Massachusetts all ranked among the highest percentage of home-base workers in the US, with all four states reporting about 24 percent of its labor force working from home in 2021.
Mississippi ranked at the bottom with only 6.3 percent of employees working from home, up from 3.1 percent in 2019.
Louisiana followed with 8.4 percent, and Wyoming reported nearly 8.9 percent.
William Frey, a demographer with the Brookings Institution, told the Washington Post that the latest work from home number correlates with college education.
Washington D.C. and Seattle both rank among the nation’s most-highly-educated cities, with 63 percent and 68 percent, respectively, of people 25 and older having a bachelor’s degree or higher.
San Francisco, Austin and Atlanta followed closely behind, matching up with the recent remote-work figures.
‘These are by and large magnets for younger, well-educated, computer-savvy adults often tied to the tech industry who are well positioned to work from home,’ Frey told the Post.
The only people that do less real work than in DC are in the big tech firms in CA.
In the private sector, WFH is monitored and supervised. You have to produce.
But when you are a FedGuy employee, WFH is mostly a farce with you working maybe half the day. I will also include some FedGuv contactors. This WFH ripoff is also on the state and county levels, but I doubt it is as bad as what Federal workers get away with.
The Federal WFH scam varies from agency to agency. So I am sure some here will say they put in a full day’s work for Los Federales.
‘These are by and large magnets for younger, well-educated, computer-savvy adults often tied to the tech industry who are well positioned to work from home,’ Frey told the Post.
If it can be done from home, it can be done from India.
“If it can be done from home, it can be done from India.”
Good one! Tell Mike Lee he can stop importing trash for IT jobs. He can just send the jobs to them in India.
The govt employees don’t do a whole lot of work when they are in the office either, trust me. They are total slackers. Slow as molasses. And impossible to fire.
I work for a big tech agency that contracts with the federal government. The way it usually works is that one or two individuals on a team of anywhere from 5-10 people are the big producers. The others are grifters. I don’t think any of them put in 40 hours of actual work in a week, though, even when we were in the office.
Biden fits right in.
No matter how hard they try, employers are never going to get that toothpaste back in the tube for a lot of us. Now that we’ve seen we can work from home, we have no interest in commuting in to the cube farm. We have no interest in unpaid stressful commutes that eat an hour or two of our time per day. We have no interest in paying to park, paying for gas, paying for doggy daycare, paying for lunch etc. We have no interest in being subject to the far left whackadoodles in HR departments in large corporations.
First thing I ask any headhunter: “is this position 100% remote?” If they say no, I tell them I’m not interested. I’ve always been able to find banks willing to let me work remote.
If you ever commuted to and from DC, you’d understand this.
“If it can be done from home, it can be done from India.”
It depends on the job. Mine can’t. The banks want credentials and they want 10-15 years experience at least in this specific area. You’re not going to find that in India.
So instead of not working in the office, they’re not working at home.
Another day I get to the office, there was hardly anyone there. I asked why was it so empty. One of the other contractors told me “because its raining”.
I will say there were some who actually worked hard and were conscientious about their work, but not many.
Public service has come to mean that the public exists to serve its servants.
Private sector employers look at government or non-profit experience as a negative when reviewing prospective employees; the reputation is well-known and well-deserved. Many government jobs are simply wealth redistribution, nothing more - and that is why so much emphasis is placed on race/gender of the workforce.
It lets the government and academia pretend assimilation is working.
Right; as Elon Musk pointed out, those who didn’t return to the workplace could pretend to work somewhere else...
They shouldn't, not for Federal contractors at least. When I was one, we were the people who actually DID the work. The FTE's were by-and-large deadwood.
This is actually great news... or it could be to the right administration. Direct GSA to sell off or end lease contracts for empty or underused office space throughout DC and revise billets for full time teleworkers to pay them at the “rest of the US” rate (not the DC pay rate, which is like 15% higher. Boom, you’re saving billions of dollars each year with two memos, no legislation needed.
Yes, firing the useless government workers would be much better, but we have to start with realism and work our way out... and yes I know there are zero chances any Democrat president would allow this, which is why every election matters.
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