FRED recently added 20 data series about work-from-home practices in the United States reported by Jose Maria Barrero, Nicholas Bloom, and Steven J. Davis. The data are organized by industry and worker characteristics and offer a broad range of insights.

The FRED graph above shows the frequency of three types of work arrangements:

• working fully on site (blue line)
• working partly on site and partly remotely (orange line)
• working fully remotely (green line)

Between November 2021 and August 2025, when these data are available, working fully on site was approximately twice as frequent as a hybrid working arrangement and five times more frequent than working fully remote.

Here are some other takeaways from the recently added data:

• The proportion of fully paid workdays worked from home by men and women is slightly different.
• At the time of this writing, the industries with remote work rates between 50% and 30% are (in descending order) finance & insurance; information; professional & business services; arts & entertainment; utilities; real estate; and wholesale trade.
• The industries with remote work rates between 25% and 10% are (also in descending order) health care & social assistance; government; education; manufacturing; retail trade; transportation & warehousing; and hospitality & food services.

For more insights into this topic, check out the work of St. Louis Fed economist Alex Bick and coauthors. They research the trends in work arrangements and provide a technical analysis of the differences in work-from-home rates by sex, education, state of residence, industry, and firm size.

How this graph was created: Search FRED for and select “All Full-Time Wage and Salary Workers: Working Fully on Site.” Click on the “Edit Graph” button and select the “Add Line” tab to search for “All Full-Time Wage and Salary Workers: Working Fully Remote.” Don’t forget to click on “Add data series.” Repeat the last two steps to search for and add “All Full-Time Wage and Salary Workers: Working in Hybrid (Some Days Working from Home, Some Days at Employer or Client Site).”

Suggested by Diego Mendez-Carbajo.