Flexible Work Options: Remote Work, Telecommuting, TeleworkStatistic # 1081The National Study of Employers, which surveyed workplaces with 50 or more employees, found that 34% of employers allow some employees to work part of the work week at home occasionally, in comparison to 3% of employers that allow all or most employees to work part of the work week at home occasionally. (Table 3, p.6) Families and Work Institute. (2005, September).2005 National Study of Employers. New York, NY: Bond, T. J., Galinsky, E., Kim, S. S., & Brownfield, E. Retrieved August 02, 2006, from http://familiesandwork.org/press/2005nserelease.html#nse “Families and Work Institute’s 2005 National Study of Employers (NSE) is one of the most comprehensive and far-reaching study of the practices, policies, programs and benefits provided by U.S. employers to address the changing needs of today’s workforce and workplace…will provide ongoing measurements of employer work life benefits, policies, and practices. In 2005, it was redesigned to include a nationally representative sample of employers with 50 or more employers…The 2005 NSE sample included 1,092 employers with 50 or more employees-66 percent are for-profit companies and 34 percent are nonprofit organizations; 44 percent operate at only one location, while 56 percent have operations at more than one location.” |
Flexible Work Options: Remote Work, Telecommuting, TeleworkStatistic # 1082The National Study of Employers, which surveyed workplaces with 50 or more employees, found that 31% of employers allow some employees to work at home or off-site on a regular basis in comparison to 3% of employers that allow all or most employees to work at home or off-site on a regular basis. (Table 3, p.6) Families and Work Institute. (2005, September).2005 National Study of Employers. New York, NY: Bond, T. J., Galinsky, E., Kim, S. S., & Brownfield, E. Retrieved August 02, 2006, from http://familiesandwork.org/press/2005nserelease.html#nse “Families and Work Institute’s 2005 National Study of Employers (NSE) is one of the most comprehensive and far-reaching study of the practices, policies, programs and benefits provided by U.S. employers to address the changing needs of today’s workforce and workplace…will provide ongoing measurements of employer work life benefits, policies, and practices. In 2005, it was redesigned to include a nationally representative sample of employers with 50 or more employers…The 2005 NSE sample included 1,092 employers with 50 or more employees-66 percent are for-profit companies and 34 percent are nonprofit organizations; 44 percent operate at only one location, while 56 percent have operations at more than one location.” |
Flexible Work Options: Remote Work, Telecommuting, TeleworkStatistic # 1564"About one-third of employers make working at home available as an option for their employees."  Pitt-Catsouphes, M., & Smyer, M. A. (2006). One size doesn't fit all: Workplace flexibility (Issue Brief No. 05). "This Issue Brief discusses opportunities to create flexible workplaces by restructuring jobs and redesigning work." |
Flexible Work Options: Remote Work, Telecommuting, TeleworkStatistic # 1655Working part (or all) of their regular workweek at home or at some other off site location is offered to "most/all" full-time employees at 12.3% of the organizations participating in the 2007 national study. (p. 16) Pitt-Catsouphes, M., Smyer, M. A., Matz-Costa, C., & Kane, K. (2007). The national study report: Phase II of the national study of business strategy and workforce development (Research Highlight No. 04). Chestnut Hill, MA: The Center on Aging & Work/Workplace Flexibility. Retrieved August 22, 2007 from http://agingandwork.bc.edu/documents/RH04_NationalStudy_03-07_004.pdf The National Study of Business Strategy and Workforce Development is a 2007 study carried out by The Center on Aging & Work/Workplace Flexibility at Boston College. Human resource professionals at 578 non-governmental organizations with 50 or more employees completed a survey about their organization's response to the aging workforce. At these organizations, approximately three-fourths of the employees were full-time, almost half were women and one-third were members of a racial/ethnic minority group. |
Flexible Work Options: Remote Work, Telecommuting, TeleworkStatistic # 1746Approximately one-third of older workers indicated that having access to a telework option would delay their transition into retirement, according to a 2002 survey conducted by The Conference Board. Parkinson, D. (2002). Voices of experience: Mature workers in the future workforce. "Anticipating the impact of demographic trends on businesses, The Conference Board has been engaged in research examining the aging population, health care for retired employees, and the opportunities and constraints of employing older workers. The Board convened the Engaging Mature Workers Working Group in September 2000 to address the challenge of maintaining a productive workforce in an aging society. HR executives representing corporate staffing, benefits administration, and diversity management functions at 15 leading companies are lending their expertise to developing business strategies that maximize the talents of mature workers." |
Flexible Work Options: Remote Work, Telecommuting, TeleworkStatistic # 2105According to the 2007 American Time Use Survey, "employed persons worked an average of 7.6 hours on the days that they worked... On the days that they worked, 20 percent of employed persons did some or all of their work at home, and 87 percent did some or all of their work at their workplace... Self-employed workers were more likely than wage and salary workers to have done some work at home--55 versus 16 percent." (p. 1-2) U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. (2008). American time use survey summary: 2007 results. Washington, DC: U. S. Department of Labor. Retrieved from http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/atus.pdf This annual release of American Time Use Survey (ATUS) data focuses on the average amount of time per day in 2007 that Americans worked, did house- hold activities, cared for household children, participated in educational activities, and engaged in leisure and sports activities. |