Working from home is here to stay and that has consequences for both housing and office space via financialpost
Almost 40 per cent of the employees in Canada worked from home at the peak of the lockdown in early 2020. Some experts believed employees would return to their workplaces as economic activity resumed and restrictions relaxed.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. You may unsubscribe any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of our emails. Postmedia Network Inc.
Consider that in 2016, Saskatchewan reported the highest share of stay-at-home workers, partly because of the larger share of workers residing in rural and small-town communities. By 2021, however, Ontario reported almost 30 per cent of the workforce was operating from home, followed by 22.6 per cent in British Columbia.Article content
For example, 44 per cent of the workers in Ottawa, where the public sector dominates the labour force, reported working from home, and the figures are 35 per cent in Toronto and 28 per cent in Calgary.
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