My new research shows that remote workers have reduced their time at work and increased their time in leisure substantially between 2019 to 2023, and these trends continued into 2023.
One of the major benefits of the ATUS is that it measures a wide array of activities, not just time at work, like many existing surveys, allowing me to track time across work, leisure, household chores, childcare, and more.
Since the ATUS collects detailed 24-hour time diaries in which respondents report all the activities from the previous day in time intervals, the records are also more reliable than standard measures of time allocated to work available in other federal data sets.
To measure remote work, I used the 'remotability' index from professors Jonathan Dingel and Brent Neiman's 2020 paper in the Journal of Public Economics, which is based on the Department of Labor's O*NET task-level data on how many tasks in an occupation can be done remotely.
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