Who worked from home after the pandemic

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic triggered a significant and long-lasting increase in the proportion of employees working from home (WFH). However, relatively little is known about the specific groups of workers that are most likely to work from home post-pandemic. This article investigates the characteristics of employees and their employers who are WFH in post-pandemic Australia. We run logistic regression analyses based on the 2023 round of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey, which contains novel information on the number of full workdays worked from home. Sixteen hypotheses are proposed and tested. The results confirm strong and powerful associations between WFH f..