The provided diagrams shed light on primary reasons which influence workers’ choice to work from home, along with the working hours at home of both gender for the year 2019.
Overall, people adopt working from home out of consideration for their expenditure, productivity and ease of childcare. The table also showed that males predominantly worked for well over 30 hours per week, while most females worked less than 10 hours a week in 2019.
On close inspection of the year 2019, the majority of both asserted that they decided to work from home by means of saving money, with 45% and 42% respectively for males and females. However, only more than half of the former cited to have more productivity, with only 24% for males, and the figure for females stood at 11%. In contrast, males took less responsibility for childcare, with only 4% benefited from doing so, while a quarter of females found childcare far more convenient.
By the same period, only a diminutive fraction of males, 3%, worked for less than 10 hours per week, in complete contrast with that of females, occupying 74%. Moreover, females still superseded males by 6% with the figure for working hours of 10 to 30 a week. Conversely, males worked considerably longer hours, with those working above 30 hours making up 81%, but that of females only took up 6%.