Employees who worked most of their hours at home during the week of February 14 to 20, 2021.
The data has been taken from several publications.
Adapted from Statistics Canada, Labour Force Survey, May 2021, page 4, January to May 2021. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
As of May 2021, around *** million Canadians were working from home. This represented a slight decrease compared to January and February, when *** million and *** million employees in Canada were working remotely. In fact, in several provinces schools and workplaces reopened in March. According to the source, in March 2021 around half were doing so temporarily due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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