Pandemic measures expose work-from-home inequality, says Statistics Canada

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Women, along with people with higher earnings and those with more education, are more likely to be able to work from home and therefore less likely to suffer a loss of employment income due to measures to limit the spread of COVID-19, according to a new report.

Canadians who can work from home, much like those in essential services and those whose jobs allow physical distancing, are less likely to have been laid off or have their hours reduced since the pandemic began, Statistics Canada said in"The results of this study today suggest that the differential capacity to work from home is likely to reduce work hours more for less educated families and lower income families during the pandemic, which in turn is likely to increase inequality in family...

About 50 per cent of single women have jobs which allow them to work from home, compared with about one third of single men, the report found, while 62 per cent of women in dual-income families hold jobs that can be done from home, compared with 38 per cent for men. Statistics Canada also found that while less than 30 per cent of primary earners with a high school diploma can work from home, roughly two-thirds of their counterparts with at least a bachelor's degree could do so.

Even though there was a rebound in jobs for low-wage workers in May as restrictions eased, they continued as a group to have a higher share of people working less than half their usual hours due to COVID-19. Statistics Canada suggested the result may be because their jobs can't easily be done from home.

 

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CTV is pure parody at this point

“those jobs will continue to be attractive for their work-life balance options even after the pandemic is over.” The media have it wrong with “work from home “. Long term there is no work-life balance, it becomes all work. I’ve done it for two decades. Media need to research.

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