Michigan State University Extension
Home-Based Business - 09159408
10/01/98
The number of people working from home continues to skyrocket, according to the latest National Work-at-Home Survey conducted by New York-based research and consulting firm Link Resources Corp. Full and part-time self-employed homeworkers and telecommuters increased by 9.4 percent over 1991 to 30.4 million in 1992.
Survey data shows that telecommuters are the fastest- growing segment of the work-at-home force, reflecting 20 percent average annual growth over the last two years. Of the 6.6 telecommuters, 1.1 million became remote nodes in 1992 thanks to emerging workplace flexibility and the need to reduce traffic congestion and air pollution.
A category Link refers to as the "High Tech Corporate Afterhours Homeworker," which is made up of people who bring work home from their jobs, dropped from 10.6 million to 8.6 million. Tom Miller, vice president of home-office research at Link, says the decline is due largely to the number of dissatisfied employees who have cut back on working extra hours for employers.
Source: "Catching up on Homework", Home Office Computing, June 1993.