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Significant socioeconomic inequalities exist between remote workers and those who work away from home, according to US Census Bureau data. The findings are notable because the share of the workforce working from home remains more than double what it was before COVID-19 even though it has declined in recent years.

In 2023, nearly 14% of US workers usually worked from home, which was more than twice the 5.7% of workers who did so in 2019, when 9 million people worked from home in the United States. By 2023, more than 22 million people worked from home.


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