Does remote work make employees happier? Here’s what the evidence says
June 14, 2026


After the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdowns, American workers’ relationship with the office was never quite the same. About a quarter of all U.S. work days are now worked from home, about three times pre-Covid levels of remote work, according to data from the Survey of Working Arrangements and Attitudes, a monthly online survey of 5,000 U.S. workers run jointly by economists at Stanford University, the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico (ITAM) and the University of Chicago.