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WHERE YOU WORK DEPENDS ON WHAT YOU DO Given all the discussion around remote work and hybrid workplaces, one might think that the majority of workers today enjoy at least a degree of flexibility in where they do their work. But according to a survey from Statistics Canada of workers and where they anticipated working in the first quarter of 2023, the
and Food Services. On the other end of the work spectrum, workers who expect to be exclusively remote range from a low of 0.2% in Manufacturing to a high of 29% in Information and Cultural Industries. Further, of the 16 sector classifications from Statistics Canada only Finance, Information and Cultural Industries, and Professional, Scientific and Technical Services have less than 50% of their workers who expect to be on-site exclusively. Of those three, some form of hybrid is expected for the majority of Finance workers, while the other two are split evenly between on-site, hybrid, and remote. As our workplaces continue to evolve alongside technological advances, the way in which we do our jobs will evolve too, but at least for the time being, remote and hybrid work represent a growing minority of jobs.
majority of workers both in British Columbia and in Canada still work exclusively on-site. Overall, 64% of Canadian workers anticipate working on-site, with slightly fewer at 60% in BC. This is followed by 16% of workers in BC who anticipate being on-site for most hours, followed by 9% split evenly, 6% who are majority remote, and 10% exclusively remote. This of course, only tells part of the story as there is understandably a wide variation among industries. Those who expect to work exclusively on-site range from a low of 34% in Finance to a high of 82% in Accommodation
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