Teleworking and Lost Work during the Pandemic: New Evidence from the CPS
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July 2021
Teleworking and lost work during the pandemic:
new evidence from the CPS
To measure the effects of the coronavirus disease 2019
pandemic, the U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics added
questions to the Current Population Survey, the main U. S.
labor force survey, starting in May 2020. This article
analyzes the results from questions asking people (1)
whether they teleworked because of the pandemic and (2)
whether they were unable to work because their employers
closed or lost business because of the pandemic. We use
the data on telework to refine work completed earlier in the
pandemic that classified occupations on their suitability for
telework. We then apply the revised classification to
examine trends in telework and the extent to which working
in an occupation suitable for telework shields workers from
unemployment. Our results show that the pandemic
resulted in a large increase in teleworking, with 33 percent
of U. S. workers reporting teleworking because of the
coronavirus in the period May-June 2020, before declining
to a still substantial 22 percent in the fourth quarter. Rates
of lost work varied widely both by an occupation's suitability
for telework and by demographic category
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has
had a momentous impact on the U.S. economy and on the
labor market, in particular. In addition to eliminating millions
of jobs, especially in the early months, the pandemic has
dramatically changed the way work is performed. To
measure the effects of the pandemic, starting in May 2020,
the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics added questions to the
Current Population Survey (CPS), the main U.S. labor force
survey.[1] All of these supplemental questions refer to
activities at any time during the last 4 weeks prior to the
survey and follow the monthly labor force questions. These
questions ask whether
Matthew Dey
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Matthew Dey is a research economist in the
Office of Employment and Unemployment
Statistics, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Harley Frazis
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Harley Frazis is a research economist in the
Office of Employment and Unemployment
Statistics, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
David S. Piccone Jr
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David S. Piccone Jr is a statistician in the Office
of Employment and Unemployment Statistics,
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Mark A. Loewenstein
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