Statistics Canada report shows which sectors most likely to have hybrid workers
The COVID-19 pandemic saw a huge surge in many employees working from home – but how many still do so?
In November 2024, 12.5% of employed Canadians indicated that they usually worked exclusively at home and 11.5% had a hybrid arrangement, according to Statistics Canada.
Both proportions are little changed from November 2023.
Among hybrid workers, 55.8% work at least half of their hours at locations other than home during the LFS November reference week, up 4.2 percentage points from the same month in 2023, says the report from StatCan.
“The increase partly reflects a shift towards more time spent on-site among hybrid workers in public administration, where the proportion of hybrid workers who worked at least half of their hours at locations other than home rose 19.9 percentage points to 61.5% over the period,” says StatCan.
“In comparison, the proportion of hybrid workers who worked half of their hours or more on-site was little changed in professional, scientific, and technical services (44.1%) and finance, insurance, real estate, rental and leasing (39.9%)—two industries with relatively high rates of hybrid work.”
Thousands of Correctional Service Canada (CSC) will no longer have any work from home options as they have recently been required to report to the workplace five times a week.
The mandate comes in the wake of a broader return-to-office policy for federal public servants under the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat. The full implementation of the federal government’s return-to-office mandate for workers – announced earlier this year – took effect in September.
