America’s older workers aren’t the type to spend some days at home in pajamas — they’re more likely to go all in on the in-office hustle.
New data from the Survey of Working Arrangements and Attitudes, a monthly survey that has been running since May 2020, found that workers aged 50-64, which spans older Gen X and younger boomers, are fully on-site the most — and are also the most likely to work from home full time. The survey examined where workers of different ages clocked in from February through May 2024.
This contrasts with Gen Zers and younger millennials, who are the least likely to be fully on-site and most likely to be hybrid.
According to the data, which measured over 13,200 workers, those aged 50-64 were fully on-site more than two-thirds of the time, over 11 percentage points more than those 20-29. Meanwhile, those 20-29 were most likely of any age demographic to work hybrid at nearly a third, almost double the rate …