Telework available vs. teleworked: two BLS measures, by occupational group.
For each occupational group: the share of workers whose job permits telework (ORS 2025, preliminary) and, separately, the share of people at work who actually teleworked in one week (CPS, September 2026).
Computer and mathematical occupations have the highest telework availability: BLS estimates 62.8% of workers had the ability to telework (ORS 2025, preliminary). In the CPS, 63.7% of people at work in that group teleworked in September 2026. Transportation and material moving occupations are lowest at less than 0.5% available. The two surveys measure different things and are shown side by side, not combined.
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| Occupational group | Telework available (ORS 2025, preliminary) | Teleworked some or all hours (CPS, Sept 2026) | Teleworked all hours (CPS, Sept 2026) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Computer and mathematical occupations | 62.8% | 63.7% | 38.4% |
| Business and financial operations occupations | 58.5% | 53.8% | 27.8% |
| Legal occupations | 58.2% | 50.6% | 17.6% |
| Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations | 40.5% | 44.4% | 24.9% |
| Architecture and engineering occupations | 39.4% | 34.3% | 13.1% |
| Management occupations | 34.5% | 37.7% | 17.6% |
| Community and social service occupations | 28.1% | 31.4% | 10.9% |
| Office and administrative support occupations | 21.5% | 23.5% | 13.1% |
| Sales and related occupations | 15.7% | 24.3% | 11.4% |
| Life, physical, and social science occupations | 13.7% | 33.1% | 13.0% |
| Educational instruction and library occupations | 6.4% | 13.0% | 3.4% |
| Healthcare practitioners and technical occupations | 2.8% | 12.2% | 5.1% |
| Protective service occupations | 1.3% | 7.0% | 2.7% |
| Construction and extraction occupations | 1.1% | 2.2% | 0.4% |
| Personal care and service occupations | 0.6% | 9.6% | 5.5% |
| Healthcare support occupations | less than 0.5% | 11.3% | 8.8% |
| Food preparation and serving related occupations | less than 0.5% | 1.4% | 0.5% |
| Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations | less than 0.5% | 3.9% | 1.4% |
| Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations | less than 0.5% | 4.9% | 1.7% |
| Production occupations | less than 0.5% | 4.7% | 2.8% |
| Transportation and material moving occupations | less than 0.5% | 2.0% | 0.7% |
Data Where BLS cannot publish an exact value it publishes a range, shown here in words (for example “less than 0.5%” or “more than 99.5%”). Ranges are BLS’s one-sided 90% confidence bounds; TryHired never converts them to a single number. For sorting only, a range is placed at its bound.
How this page is built
ORS: percent of workers whose job had the ability to telework (the job permits regularly performing the critical job function from home for an agreed-upon part of the schedule), 2018 SOC major groups, 2025 preliminary estimates. CPS: people who teleworked or worked at home for pay at any time in the reference week as a percent of people at work, by occupation of main job (CPS groups matched to the same SOC major groups by name), not seasonally adjusted. These are group-level figures and do not describe any single occupation. No causal claims: these are descriptive estimates. Data status: BLS publishes these as preliminary estimates: the aggregate of two annual samples collected between August 2023 and July 2025, part of the third ORS wave. Values may change when the full wave is final. BLS advises against comparing them with earlier ORS releases. Pay: BLS OEWS May 2025 national median for the same SOC code (not published separately for some ORS occupations). Outlook: BLS Employment Projections 2025–35. BLS data are in the public domain.
- Whether a specific employer offers it: ORS estimates describe workers in an occupation nationally, not any one job opening.
- Health, disability or medical suitability: these are job requirements, not advice about whether a job suits a medical condition.
- Final values: the 2025 estimates are preliminary and may change when BLS completes the third wave.
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Requirements Survey, 2025 estimates (preliminary: two of the third wave's samples, collected August 2023 to July 2025; released January 16, 2026), public domain.
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 estimates (public domain).
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Employment Projections program, occupational projections 2025–35.
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Current Population Survey, telework or work at home for pay, tables A-41 and A-42, September 2026.