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Work from Home Rate: Manufacturing, Wage and Salary Employees (WFHFRACMATMANUFACTURING)

Observations

2026: 12.76
Updated: Apr 5, 2026 9:01 AM CDT
2026:  12.76  
2025:  14.57  
2024:  16.15  
2023:  16.16  
2022:  17.47  

Units:

Percent of Full Paid Working Days,
Not Seasonally Adjusted

Frequency:

Annual

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Title Release Dates
Work from Home Rate: Manufacturing, Wage and Salary Employees 2025-08-05 2026-04-05
 
Source    
Barrero, Jose Maria 2025-08-05 2025-11-04
Bloom, Nick 2025-08-05 2025-11-04
Davis, Steven J. 2025-08-05 2025-11-04
Barrero, Jose Maria 2025-11-05 2026-02-04
Bloom, Nick 2025-11-05 2026-02-04
Davis, Steven J. 2025-11-05 2026-02-04
Barrero, Jose Maria 2026-02-05 2026-04-05
Bloom, Nick 2026-02-05 2026-04-05
Davis, Steven J. 2026-02-05 2026-04-05
 
Release    
Select time series based on the U.S. Survey of Working Arrangements and Attitudes (SWAA) 2025-08-05 2026-04-05
 
Units    
Percent of Full Paid Working Days 2025-08-05 2026-04-05
 
Frequency    
Annual 2025-08-05 2026-04-05
 
Seasonal Adjustment    
Not Seasonally Adjusted 2025-08-05 2026-04-05
 
Notes    
Percent of full paid days worked from home for US wage and salary employees in the Manufacturing sector. Average obtained from a survey of US workers who earned $10,000 or more in a prior year, reweighted by age, sex, education, and earnings to match the share of individuals in the Current Population Survey (CPS). Copyright 2025 by Jose Maria Barrero, Nicholas Bloom, and Steven J. Davis. The data are made available under the CC-BY 4.0 license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.) When using this work, please cite: Barrero, Jose Maria, Nicholas Bloom, and Steven J. Davis, 2021. 'Why working from home will stick,' National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 28731. See https://www.wfhresearch.com" class="breakable" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://www.wfhresearch.com'>https://www.wfhresearch.com for more information.

2025-08-05 2025-11-04
Percent of full paid days worked from home for US wage and salary employees in the Manufacturing sector. Average obtained from a survey of US workers who earned $10,000 or more in a prior year, reweighted by age, sex, education, and earnings to match the share of individuals in the Current Population Survey (CPS). Data for the latest year use survey responses from months that have ended by the release date. Copyright 2025 by Jose Maria Barrero, Nicholas Bloom, and Steven J. Davis. The data are made available under the CC-BY 4.0 license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.) When using this work, please cite: Barrero, Jose Maria, Nicholas Bloom, and Steven J. Davis, 2021. 'Why working from home will stick,' National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 28731. See https://www.wfhresearch.com" class="breakable" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://www.wfhresearch.com'>https://www.wfhresearch.com for more information.

2025-11-05 2026-02-04
Percent of full paid days worked from home for US wage and salary employees in the Manufacturing sector. Average obtained from a survey of US workers who earned $10,000 or more in a prior year, reweighted by age, sex, education, and earnings to match the share of individuals in the Current Population Survey (CPS). Data for the latest year use survey responses from months that have ended by the release date. Copyright 2026 by Jose Maria Barrero, Nicholas Bloom, and Steven J. Davis. The data are made available under the CC-BY 4.0 license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.) When using this work, please cite: Barrero, Jose Maria, Nicholas Bloom, and Steven J. Davis, 2021. 'Why working from home will stick,' National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 28731. See https://www.wfhresearch.com" class="breakable" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://www.wfhresearch.com'>https://www.wfhresearch.com for more information.

2026-02-05 2026-04-05

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