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The 2017 State of Telecommuting in the U.S. Employee Workforce

The 2017 State of Telecommuting in the U.S. Employee Workforce Report presents the most comprehensive and up-to-date statistics about the state of telecommuting in the United States. In order to create this report, FlexJobs has partnered with Global Workplace Analytics to do a special analysis of data from the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. You can get a free copy of The 2017 State of Telecommuting in the U.S. Employee Workforce Report below.

Highlights from The 2017 State of Telecommuting in the U.S. Employee Workforce report include:

• 3.9 million U.S. employees, or 2.9 percent of the total U.S. workforce, work from home at least half of the time, up from 1.8 million in 2005 (a 115 percent increase since 2005).
• The average telecommuter is 46 years of age or older, has at least a bachelor’s degree, and earns a higher median salary than an in-office worker.
• Roughly the same population of women and men telecommute.
• Telecommuting is more common among employees over 35 years of age and most common among Baby Boomers.
• In more than half of the top U.S. metro areas telecommuting exceeds public transportation as the commute option of choice. It has grown far faster than any other commute mode.

The 2017 State of Telecommuting in the U.S. Employee Workforce Report includes information on the following:

• Trends in the telecommuting workforce over the last ten years
• Demographics of the average telecommuter (age, gender, education, salary)
• Telecommuting by industries, occupations and sectors
• Telecommuting by metro areas (prevalence and growth)
• Actual and potential economic impact of telecommuting
• Environmental impact of telecommuting

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