"The workplace data, gathered by Christos Andreas Makridis a labor economist and research professor at Arizona State University, first reinforced that more people are working remotely. Just 15 percent of professionals who could do so tended to work remotely on Thursdays and Fridays in 2019, but in 2025 fully 35 percent to 40 percent worked remotely."
"But the key part of Makridis' data is that from 2019 to 2024 the average number of minutes people worked on Fridays dropped by up to 90 minutes for workers on remote or hybrid schedules. For workers with jobs that are harder to achieve remotely, Makridis notes that this decline was "much smaller," which indicates the change really does go hand in glove with remote work."
"Meanwhile, his research also found that those workers were redistributing some of these "missing" minutes to other parts of the week, working an average of 8 hours 24 minutes on Wednesdays in 2024, up from 7 hours 54 minutes typically logged on Wednesdays in 2019."
Hybrid and remote work arrangements have become more common, with remote work on Thursdays and Fridays rising from about 15 percent in 2019 to roughly 35–40 percent by 2025. Remote work on the first three weekdays also increased, from about 10–15 percent in 2019 to nearly 30 percent by 2024. Average work minutes on Fridays fell by as much as 90 minutes for remote and hybrid workers, while jobs harder to do remotely saw much smaller Friday declines. Some of the reduced Friday minutes were shifted to other weekdays, notably increasing average Wednesday work times from 7 hours 54 minutes to 8 hours 24 minutes.
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