COVID-19 Pandemic Continues To Reshape Work in America
Nearly two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, roughly six-in-ten U.S. workers who say their jobs can mainly be done from home (59%) are working from home all or most of the time.
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Nearly two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, roughly six-in-ten U.S. workers who say their jobs can mainly be done from home (59%) are working from home all or most of the time.
About a third of workers with jobs that can be done remotely are working from home all the time, according to a new Pew Research Center survey.
Nearly half of U.S. adults say the pandemic has driven people in their community apart. Many see a long road to recovery: About one-in-five say life in their community will never get back to the way it was before COVID-19.
Workers who quit a job in 2021 say low pay (63%), no opportunities for advancement (63%) and feeling disrespected at work (57%) were reasons why.
Americans have mixed views on the importance of having a degree. 47% say the cost is worth it only if someone doesn’t have to take out loans.
Roughly one-in-five workers say they are very or somewhat likely to look for a new job in the next six months, but only about a third of these workers think it would be easy to find one.
The biggest takeaway may be the extent to which the decidedly nonpartisan virus met with an increasingly partisan response.
About half of U.S. adults who are currently unemployed and are looking for a job are pessimistic about their prospects for future employment.
Half of adults who say they lost a job due to the coronavirus outbreak are still unemployed.
A majority of U.S. households have some level of investment in the stock market, mostly in the form of retirement accounts such as 401(k)s.
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