More Employees Onsite and More Often, Survey Shows

36% said they are present at their worksite all of the time, up from 29% in 2021 and 17% in 2020. Image: ilyapfoto/Shutterstock.com

By: FEDweek Staff

More federal employees are working onsite and more often this year than last, continuing a downward trend since the mid-2020 peak in offsite work caused by the pandemic, the Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey showed.

Thirty-six percent said they are present at their worksite all of the time, up from 29 percent in 2021 and 17 percent in 2020, while 18 percent said they had not been present onsite this year, down from 22 and 30 percent. The percentage who said they are onsite less than a quarter of the time fell over the three years from 24 to 20 and now 15.

While the share of full-time telework is down, many of those who are continuing to telework do so a substantial portion of their time, however. Those reporting that they telework three or four days a week now stands at 25 percent, up from 11-12 percent in the prior years, while those doing it one or two days a week stands at 17 percent, up from 8 and 10 percent.

Ten percent said they telework less than one or two days a month, compared with the pre-pandemic rate in 2019 of 14 percent.

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