While many workers are toiling from home during COVID-19, not every occupation was accustomed to remote work before the pandemic.
Looking at office-using occupations across the 35 largest US MSAs, Cushman & Wakefield found that the highest rates of remote work were found among the advertising (14.4%), art and design (17.7%) and media occupations (22.1%). Sales professionals also had higher work from home rates compared to other occupations. Eighteen percent of sales professionals for the real estate industry report mostly working from home, though that percentage is probably higher among residential real estate professionals.
It is not likely, though, that these occupations will settle in at those percentages, C&W concluded.
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Leslie Shaver
Les Shaver has been covering commercial and residential real estate for almost 20 years. His work has appeared in Multifamily Executive, Builder, units, Arlington Magazine in addition to GlobeSt.com and Real Estate Forum.
