Workplace optimization software vendor Cognitive Corp., in partnership with Verum Consulting, announced the addition of work-from-home metrics for environmental reporting. Given the twin demands of many employees pushing to work from home and SEC regulatory focus on ESG reporting, with a significant emphasis on the environmental part, this sort of information in the future could become more important.

The last few years have changed the reporting landscape. As the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis has previously estimated, 13% of full-time workers were ready for remote work as of 2017, with three-quarters being in managerial and technical occupations and service workers, including sales, making up another 14%.

But the pandemic forced enormous changes in the numbers of people working from home. The WFH contingent's size seems to be stabilizing, although still at much higher numbers than in the past.

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