Source: Barrero, Jose Maria  

Source: Bloom, Nick  

Source: Davis, Steven J.  

Release: Select time series based on the U.S. Survey of Working Arrangements and Attitudes (SWAA)  

Units:  Percent of Full Paid Working Days, Not Seasonally Adjusted

Frequency:  Annual

Percent of full paid days worked from home for US wage and salary employees in the Retail Trade 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/. 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 for more information.