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| Working at home: more popular in Oregonthan U.S. | ||
| 01/24/2007 | ||
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CONTACT: Art Ayre, Economist WorkSource Oregon Employment Department 503-947-1268 Art.L.Ayre@state.or.us Oregonians are more likely to work at home than workers nationwide. That is the finding of a study performed by the U.S. Census Bureau. The study found that in 2005, an estimated 86,000 workers, or 5.1 percent of the state’s workforce, worked at home. In contrast, 3.6 percent of the U.S. workforce did so. The U.S. Census Bureau defines “working from home” as individuals who worked at home for most of the week. As a result, people who regularly worked at home one or two days a week were not reflected in the work-at-home estimates. "Self-employed workers were much more likely to work from home than were other workers in Oregon. About one in four self-employed workers in Oregon worked from home, compared to one in almost fifty workers who were not self-employed," said Art Ayre, employment economist for WorkSource Oregon Employment Department. About 64 percent of Oregonians who work at home were self-employed. Private companies employed another 26 percent of those workers. Employees of local, state, and federal governments comprised five percent of at-home workers, and two percent were unpaid family workers, according to the survey. One in five Oregonians who work at home work in the professional, scientific, management, administrative, and waste management services industry. This is comparable to nationwide figures, where 22 percent of at-home workers are in this industry. Women make up about half of at-home workers, and women in Oregon are slightly more likely than women in the nation as a whole to work at home. In Oregon, women are 52 percent of the state’s at-home workforce, while nationwide this figure is right at 50 percent. |
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