New Mexico Business Weekly - More Americans are working at home than ever before. According to a U.S. Census Bureau report released Thursday, 13.4 million people, or 9.5 percent of all workers, worked at home in 2010. That was up from 1999 when 9.5 million people, or 7 percent of all workers, worked out of their homes. Nearly one fourth of those home-based workers were in the management, business and financial occupations, and nearly half were self-employed. Metropolitan areas in the West, Southwest and Southeast had the highest percentage of home-based workers.
Among the nation’s metropolitan areas, Boulder, Colo., had the highest percentage of home-based workers at 10.9 percent. In New Mexico, Santa Fe had the highest percentage of home-based workers at 8.3 percent. Albuquerque and Las Cruces each had 4.5 percent, and Farmington had 4 percent. Read More News New Mexico
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