Because the pandemic wanes down and most firms are settling into their new norms, many employees have gone again to the bodily workplace, both on a hybrid or full-time schedule.

And in line with a brand new report by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the variety of employees within the U.S. which have left the times of distant work behind is on the rise.

Knowledge from August 1 to September 2022 exhibits {that a} staggering 72.5% of private-sector firms had “little to no” distant employees throughout that point interval. Companies that cited having “some” distant employees was 16.4%.

Of those identical companies, solely 11.1% had workers working remotely 100% of the time.

A few 12 months prior, from July to September 2021, 60.1% of companies reported having “little to no” distant employees, whereas 10.3% of those self same companies had full-time distant employees.

Among the many industries with the best percentages of distant employees have been Info (42.2%) {and professional} and enterprise providers (25.0%).

Each industries are part of the tech sector, which has been hit significantly exhausting in current months by mass layoffs, and compelled firms to show again to in-person work to guage which positions and jobs are mandatory for fulfillment.

One such firm is Twitter, which has notoriously been again to a full-time in-person mannequin since Elon Musk bought the social media platform and demanded employees adapt to his “hardcore” plan for the corporate.

Final week, Musk despatched a mass e-mail to workers at 2:30 a.m. reminding them to come back to the workplace every single day and that the rule was “not non-compulsory.”