Telecommuting

Telecommuting describes working from a location other than the employer's primary office — typically from home but also from co-working spaces, satellite offices, or other locations — using technology to remain connected and productive. As a distinct concept from remote work (which implies full-time off-site arrangements), telecommuting often refers to partial remote working where employees split their time between the office and remote locations. Its prevalence expanded dramatically from 2020 and has remained substantially above pre-pandemic norms: knowledge worker populations that averaged 5 to 8 percent telecommuting pre-2020 now average 25 to 40 percent in hybrid arrangements, creating permanent changes to real estate strategy, management practices, and HR policy that the term telecommuting no longer fully captures in scale or scope.