In all families, roughly four in ten primary income earners hold jobs that can be done from home, according to a report released Monday by Statistics Canada.
“The possibility of working from work from home rises sharply with the educational attainment of the primary income earner. While less than 30 per cent of primary earners with a high school diploma can work from home, roughly 66 per cent of their counterparts with a bachelor’s degree or higher education can do so,” said the federal agency.
“Among dual-earner families, the feasibility of working from home varies markedly across the earnings distribution. For example, 54 per cent of the dual-earner families who are in the top decile of the family earnings distribution hold jobs in which both husbands and wives can work from home. The corresponding percentage for dual-earner families who are the bottom decile is only eight per cent.”
The report said fewer workers in goods-producing sectors can work from home than those in service industries and women are more likely than men to hold jobs that can be done from home. For example, 50 per cent of unattached women can work from home, compared with 33 per cent of unattached men. Similar patterns are observed among dual-earner families. Sixty-two percent of women in these families hold jobs that can be done from home, compared with 38 per cent for their male counterparts, said StatsCan.
