Before the coronavirus, telework was an optional benefit, mostly for the affluent few
COVID-19 may yet do what years of advocacy have failed to: Make telework a benefit available to more than a relative handful of U.S. workers.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
COVID-19 may yet do what years of advocacy have failed to: Make telework a benefit available to more than a relative handful of U.S. workers.
A majority of LGB adults report that they have used an online dating site or app, roughly twice the share of straight adults who say the same.
Couples who meet online are more likely than those who meet offline to be diverse by some measures – but this can be explained by age.
Those 60 and older now spend more than half of their daily leisure time, four hours and 16 minutes, in front of screens.
Amid ongoing discussions about sexual harassment in the workplace and beyond, read five findings about how these issues have been discussed on Twitter and other social media outlets in the past year.
Women in the U.S. are substantially more likely than men to say gender discrimination is a major problem in the technology industry.
Although manufacturing jobs have fallen over the past three decades, improved productivity has kept manufacturing output rising – contrary to what many Americans believe. But over the past few years, productivity growth has been sluggish at best.
Much of U.S. job growth over the past 25 years has been in occupations that require higher levels of education, training and experience – a trend that seems likely to continue, based on our analysis of official government job-growth projections.
What the data show on bullying, drug and alcohol use, depression, violence and other common sources of parental concern.
Contrary to conventional wisdom, working multiple jobs has become less common over the past two decades.
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