By Christopher Ingraham | The Washington Post
ew numbers from Gallup show that remote work is becoming more common. workers today are more likely to spend at least part of their time working apart from their colleagues. And the share of time that these workers are spending out of the office is getting larger.
The Gallup numbers are the latest evidence of a trend that’s been visible in Census data for a number of years now. About 4.6 percent of workers, or 6.8 million of them, worked at home in 2015, the latest year for which Census has data. That’s a nearly 5 percent increase over 2014.
Remote work is the bright spot in an otherwise gloomy landscape for commuters. According to the Census, the typical American commute has been getting longer each year since 2010.
