March 07, 2002 (The Editor’s Desk is updated each business day.)

Computer use by home workers

Among persons who reported working at home at least once per week in 2001, nearly 80 percent used a computer as part of their work at home.

Workers using electronic equipment for job-related work at home, May 2001 (percent)
[Chart data—TXT]

Just over 60 percent of all persons who usually worked at home made use of the Internet or e-mail to do their work. Fewer than half used (about 40 percent) used fax.

Close to 80 percent of home workers used a telephone for the work they did at home.

These data on work at home are from a supplement to the May 2001 Current Population Survey. Find out more in "Work at Home in 2001," news release USDL 02-107.

 

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