According to a new report from The Conference Board, the proportion of employees who work predominantly from home or from another remote location has, during the last decade, more than tripled in many industries, while nearly doubling nationwide among all full-time (nonself-employed) U.S. workers.

Drawn from a number of recent surveys by the U.S. Census Bureau and private sources, the report, “The Incredible Disappearing Office: Making Telework Work,” published by The Conference Board in May 2012, finds employees taking more frequent advantage of such workplace flexibility across the board, with 84 percent of employees who telework more than once per month now working remotely at least one day per week. In 2008, that number was 72 percent.

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