| Austinites give daily commute the boot | Austinites give daily commute the boot | https://www.recenter.tamu.edu/news/newstalk-texas/?Item=18000 | 2017-10-24T05:00:00Z | 2017-10-24T23:10:00Z | AUSTIN – More people are working from home in the Austin area than any other major U.S. city, according to Census Bureau data.
Nearly 9 percent of people ages 16 and up with jobs in the Austin area telecommute, the data show.
The national average is 5 percent.
So what’s up with Austin? Why do so many people work from home here?
Kara Kockelman, an engineering professor at the University of Texas, offered some insights into why:
EDUCATION - Austin has a lot of highly educated people, and those people tend to work in white-collar professional jobs where it’s possible to work from home.
TECH JOBS - Austin also has a large number of people who work in the tech industry, which is known for jobs that are tethered to a computer and could be done virtually anywhere. There are roughly 120,000 people who work in Austin’s tech industry.
TWO-WORKER HOUSEHOLDS - Census data show that about 40 percent of Austin’s households have at least two workers.
TRAFFIC - And lastly, there’s the Austin traffic.
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