How many people are working from home? Not as many as you might think

Nearly half of pre-pandemic workers traveled daily to their job in August, according to the Dallas Fed’s Real Time Population Survey, a research effort by Professor of Economics Alexander Bick and his co-authors.

Nearly half of pre-pandemic workers traveled daily to their job in August, according to the Dallas Fed’s Real Time Population Survey, a research effort by Professor of Economics Alex Bick, Adam Blandin of Virginia Commonwealth University, and a Dallas Fed Senior Economic Policy Adviser Karel Mertens to track the economic impact of the coronavirus more quickly than with traditional government reports. Nearly two-thirds of workers are commuting part of the week, as well, per the latest survey data.

In this story published Sept. 2, 2020, in The Boston Globe:

There has been a gradual shift to a larger fraction of the employed working at new jobs, i.e. jobs they haven’t held before the outbreak. These jobs have very low work-from-home rates.