Anonymous, "How many hours per week are you working? Is this more, less, or the same than before COVID-19? Is this remote work? (Q9a WI2020)", contributed by Briana Leone and Alison Kenner, The Energy Rights Project, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, last modified 19 April 2021, accessed 8 March 2026. https://energyrights.info/content/how-many-hours-week-are-you-working-more-less-or-same-covid-19-remote-work-q9a-wi2020
Critical Commentary
This chart reflects answers collected from question #9a from the Winter 2020 survey that asked: 9a. How many hours per week are you working? Is this more, less, or the same than before COVID-19? Is this remote work?
A total of 47 respondents answered this question. Only 14 respondents specified whether their work was remote or not.
5 respondents said it wasn’t applicable or they were not working at that time
5 respondents worked up to 20 hours a week, all of them noting this was less than before the pandemic
5 respondents were working between 21 and 30 hours a week
1 respondent said this was less than before the pandemic
1 respondents said it was more than before the pandemic
1 respondent said it was more or less the same as before the pandemic
2 didn’t note whether it was less, more, or the same
21 respondents noted they worked between 31 and 40 hours a week, remote
17 of which said this was the same as before the pandemic
4 saying it felt like more, especially when they had to work later
3 respondents noted working more than 41 hours a week
2 of the 3 noting these hours were more than before the pandemic
1 respondent said their hours increased slightly but did not give a total number of weekly hours
1 respondent said they now work three days instead of five, but did not give a total number of weekly hours
1 respondent noted they were working full time prior to going onto disability
1 respondent said it depended, but generally worked less hours in a partially remote setting
The data was produced by the Shifting Energy Demands in COVID-19 Survey - Overview, which was administered to 83 people over a fourteen week period between December 2020 and March 2021. Visit the Winter 2020 Shifting Energy Demands in COVID-19 - Survey Results page to view more data from our survey. The project is approved by Drexel’s IRB.