More of Us Work at Home

Between 1997 and 2010, according to a new Census report, the share of employed Americans working at least one day a week at home rose from 7.0 to 9.4 percent, with most of the rise happening since the Great Recession. That’s 13.6 million who now work at home, and roughly two-thirds of these (mostly self-employed) work only at home. At-home workers tend …