A report shows fewer Canadians are working from home than at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. It also found working from home had potentially important implications for society.
A report shows fewer Canadians are working from home than at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. It also found working from home had potentially important implications for society.
I mean, yeah? Basically everyone who could work from home in April 2020 was forced to do so, regardless of whether they or their employer wanted them to. Now there’s more of a mix.
Still some interesting nuggets in the report and article, though:
StatCan found that dual-income couples who make among the most money in the country were nine times more likely to work from home between April 2020 and June 2021 than couples who both work and who are in the bottom 10 per cent of Canada’s earnings distributions.
It’s one of those situations where it seems obvious that a lot of lower-paying jobs require manual labour that can’t be done remotely, but the discrepancy still feels really large.
There’s probably also an element of people who make more being more valued for their skills and therefore having greater negotiating power to preserve their desired work arrangements.
They may also be able to afford a bigger house or apartment, allowing then to dedicate more space to their office, maybe even ending up with a bigger office than their workplace would have provided.
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I mean, yeah? Basically everyone who could work from home in April 2020 was forced to do so, regardless of whether they or their employer wanted them to. Now there’s more of a mix.
Still some interesting nuggets in the report and article, though:
It’s one of those situations where it seems obvious that a lot of lower-paying jobs require manual labour that can’t be done remotely, but the discrepancy still feels really large.
The more money you have, the more breaks you get. That’s true all the way down the scale.
There’s probably also an element of people who make more being more valued for their skills and therefore having greater negotiating power to preserve their desired work arrangements.
They may also be able to afford a bigger house or apartment, allowing then to dedicate more space to their office, maybe even ending up with a bigger office than their workplace would have provided.