The Great Shift to Remote Work Has Hit a New Normal: Justin Fox

The share of US workers who worked primarily from home last year was 13.3%, according to US Census Bureau data released Thursday, down just a bit from 2023’s 13.8%. With recent monthly surveys from WFH Research showing the share of paid full days worked from home now holding nearly steady — at an average of 27.7% in the first eight months of 2025, compared with 27.9% over the same period in 2024 — it’s looking as if the great pandemic shift to remote work has settled into a new normal in which it is far more prevalent than before Covid-19 though still clearly ...