Job Flexibilities and Work Schedules — 2017–2018 — 2019-09-24

In 2017-18, about 36 million wage and salary workers (25 percent) worked at home at least occasionally, and 15 percent of wage and salary workers had days they only worked at home, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Fifty-seven percent of workers had a flexible schedule in which they could vary the times they began and stopped working. Data in this news release are averages of data collected throughout 2017 and 2018 from a supplement to the American Time Use Survey (ATUS), the 2017-18 Leave and Job Flexibilities Module, and sponsored by the Department of Labor's Women's Bureau. Data on job flexibilities and work schedules were collected directly from wage and salary workers, excluding the self-employed. Estimates in this news release apply only to a person's sole or main job. For individuals with more than one job, the main job is the job in which they usually work the most hours.