As the boundaries between work and home become more blurred, are more home PCs being used for work? When employees do use their home PCs for work, what devices do employees use most—and what for? This TUPdate looks at how widespread work-related activities with home PCs are among employees. It specifies each of those activities for home PCs, home desktops, and home notebooks and reports on work-related activities including email, finance, cloud storage, collaboration, meetings, calendars, calls, presentations, and videos. This TUPdate considers online adults in the US, UK, Germany, Japan, China, and India from TUP/Technology User Profile 2019 and 2020.
Using home printers for work activities is strongest among mid-age groups [MetaFAQs]
Dan Ness, Principal Analyst, MetaFacts, October 16, 2020 Since the COVID-19 pandemic, home printers have been increasingly used for work. This growth is primarily among American adults that are neither the youngest nor the oldest. This MetaFAQs reports on the use of home printers for personal activities as well as work-related activities by age group….
Smartphones are workhorses [MetaFAQs]
Dan Ness, Principal Analyst, MetaFacts, October 15, 2020 Smartphones are in widespread use, as are PCs and tablets. They are being used for more than phone calls. This MetaFAQs looks at the regular smartphone activities of employees in the US, Germany, and China, detailing the work-related activities they do. About MetaFAQs MetaFAQs are answers to…
Key home PC trends [Highlights]
Home PC Penetration
The home PC has been a central part of the American technology user’s world for years, and while remaining so for many, the home PC is slowly losing its primacy among some market segments.
Home PCs have been challenged by the emerging use of smartphones and tablets, not only among younger Americans. Older Americans have also rapidly adopted smartphones and are starting to discover how to use them well. Home PC makers, software developers, and service providers have worked hard to keep the home PC as a central device, or at least one that is included.
The home PC is not down and out – not by a long shot. The humble PC is in use by most online Americans. In 2020, 75% of online adults in the US actively used a home PC. From 2015 to 2019, this level was effectively flat at 80%.
New work-from-home employees got new PCs in Asia – less so in Europe and the US [MetaFAQs]
Dan Ness, Principal Analyst, MetaFacts, October 6, 2020 Working from home is a new practice for many employees during the COVID pandemic. This MetaFAQs reports on the use of new home PCs and new work PCs among employees who are new to working from home, those who had previously been working from home, and those…
Most home notebooks never leave home [MetaFAQs]
Dan Ness, Principal Analyst, MetaFacts, October 2, 2020 Notebooks are designed to be light and portable. But, how many home notebooks don’t leave home? How many home notebooks aren’t used in a coffee shop, library, public place, school, or workplace? This MetaFAQs looks at the mobile activity of home-owned notebooks by the locations they are…
Work from home on the shoulders of employees, for now [TUPdate]
Dan Ness, Principal Analyst, MetaFacts, September 25, 2020
Working exclusively from home
Are you reading this from home? That makes you one of the 391 million online adults working remotely we found in our TUP/Technology User Profile survey across 6 countries. If you are like the average employee around the world, you are also reading this on your own PC, tablet, or smartphone, and not one provided by your employer.
Home PCs are the new work PCs
The work from home privilege [MetaFacts Pulse Survey]
By Dan Ness, Principal Analyst, MetaFacts
Working from home. While it is a blessing for some and may feel like a curse for others, only a few get the privilege. Being able to work from home during widespread public health safety shutdowns has sustained employment for many employees. It has also brought new challenges for those with school-age children or insufficient technology. It has also brought about faster adoption of certain technology products and services while revealing long-present sociological differences. The differences may persist while many of the technological changes will be temporary and evolutionary, not revolutionary.
Don’t let seniors fool you as they Zoom from behind [TUPdate, MetaFacts Pulse Survey]
Dan Ness, Principal Analyst, MetaFacts, May 5, 2020
Ageism is widespread in the tech industry. Many younger computer experts had a good laugh when a recent call went out for COBOL programmers, piling snark on classic tools as passe. That was until these relative newbies realized how many citizens would be left waiting for financial support after the recent surge in demand for unemployment checks. Younger computer experts were even more chagrined when they heard about the hiring bonuses being offered and realized they did not have relevant skills.
MetaFacts work from home study – [Highlights, MetaFacts Pulse Survey]
This TUPdate investigates and profiles working Americans who are working from home. With the COVID-19 pandemic and economic shifts taking place now, many are not technologically ready for a work-at-home or stay-at-home experience.
MetaFacts conducted a series of surveys during the periods March 26-30, 2020, and April 8, 2020.