The Future of Remote Work in the Region

Jaison Abel, Jason Bram, Richard Deitz and Jessica Lu

No 20210618, Liberty Street Economics from Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Abstract: The coronavirus pandemic abruptly changed the way we work, in meaningful and potentially lasting ways. While working from home represented a small share of work before the pandemic, such arrangements became unexpectedly widespread once the pandemic struck. With the pandemic now being brought under control and conditions improving, workers have begun to return to the office. But just how much remote work will persist in the new normal? The New York Fed’s June regional business surveys asked firms about the extent of remote working before, during, and after the pandemic. Results indicate that before the pandemic, the average firm in the region conducted just a small share of its work remotely, a figure that currently stands at around a third among service firms but well below 10 percent among manufacturers. Once the pandemic is fully behind us, service firms expect double the amount of remote work than before the pandemic, though that figure is less than the share being done currently, while manufacturers expect the amount of remote work to return to where it was before the pandemic.

Keywords: pandemic; remote work; COVID-19 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: R10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021-06-18
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