A new Upwork study suggests that 22% of the American workforce will be remote by 2025.
USA Today conducted an online survey of 1,000 American white-collar workers, to learn more about remote work trends.
The goal was to learn how Americans feel about their current setup and what the future holds for remote workers.
Around 22 million employed adults (aged 18 and over) in the U.S. work from home all the time. That equals to roughly 14% of all employed adults.
Over one-third of workers in the U.S. who can work remotely do so all the time, while 41% are at least on a hybrid setup.
Only 16% of white-collar workers would consider a role that doesn’t offer any days of remote work.
Additionally, 42% of office workers would take a 10% pay cut to have the flexibility to work remotely.
According to Upwork’s Future of Remote Work study, one-third of hiring managers said that productivity increased due to remote work.
However, according to the Pew Research Center, three in five American workers do not have jobs that can be done remotely.
Finally, USA Today analyzed how many people work from home by education level.
36% of those who have reached, at most, a high school degree or equivalent are fully remote.
In contrast, master’s degree holders having the lowest percentage of fully remote U.S. workers at 27%.
Those holding doctoral degrees are more likely to have a hybrid role than any other, 52% in total.
Only 27% of those with high school degrees or equivalent work in hybrid models which is the lowest for all groups.
