Work At Home Experts

Work at Home Strategies are becoming more important as the Work At Home workforce increases in numbers and influence.

Here’s the summary of a recent study entitled WorldatWork 2006 Telework Trendlines^, commissioned from The Dieringer Research Group:

The number of Americans whose employer allows them to work from home at least one day per month increased to 12.4 million in 2006, up from approximately 9.9 million in 2005, according to research conducted by WorldatWork 2006 Telework Trendlines commissioned from The Dieringer Research Group.”

The rise represents a 25-percent one-year increase, and a 63-percent two-year increase.

In 2004, the number of employees allowed to work from home at least one day per month was approximately 7.6 million.

Based on government estimates of 149.3 million workers in the U.S. labor force (2005), the 2006 data means that roughly 8 percent of American workers have an employer that allows them to telework one day per month.

The rising trend in the past two or three years is likely a combination of factors, including the proliferation of high speed/ broadband and other wireless access (which has made it both less expensive and more productive to work remotely) and the trend by more employers to embrace work-life balance and flex-scheduling
concepts.

The 2006 survey also found that the number of “contract teleworkers” who work remotely at least one day a month held steady between 2005 and 2006 at approximately 16.2 million Americans.

In total, the simple sum of “employee teleworkers”and “contract teleworkers” working remotely at least one day per month has risen from approximately 26.1
million in 2005 to 28.7 million in 2006, a 10-percent one-year increase. Since 2002, the total number of U.S. once-a-month teleworkers has risen by roughly 39 percent.

(WorldatWork 2006 Telework Trendlines commissioned from The Dieringer Research Group.)”