Near the end of 2019 and in the first months of 2020, the prospect of working from home was a growing trend, touted by some employers as part of their benefits offerings.
Now, it is one of several tools being used to combat a global health crisis.
Estimates vary on the number of workers operating on a remote basis as the coronavirus pandemic surges in the U.S. In June, Nicholas Bloom, a professor of economics at Stanford University, said in an interview that as much as 42% of the U.S. workforce was working full-time from home, effectively forming a “working-from-home economy.”
