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technology to ensure the continued operations of their business .
Survey data suggests that many employees who have acclimated to remote work are not in a rush to go back to an office full-time . In fact , half agree that they would consider changing jobs to continue remote or hybrid work .
• Use of collaboration tools like video conferencing on Verizon ’ s networks , is still a remarkable 2872 %
Traffic across secure networks ( VPN ) also remains 91 % higher than pre-pandemic volumes .
• Remote workers largely say they tend to be more mobile when they are working remotely ( 75 %). Two in three say they plan to take advantage of remote work to travel or work from places other than their home when the pandemic has subsided ( 67 %).
This shift in worker preference has one major implication : the reliability of networks is even more important today and going forward as workers are increasingly able to work from places other than home .
Staying connected
Newer technology may get the headlines about record data usage , but the old-fashioned telephone call spiked during and after lockdowns . above pre-pandemic levels . Traffic across secure networks ( VPN ) also remains 91 % higher than prepandemic volumes .
• Over half of employed adults say they are currently working remotely at least part of the time ( 54 %), nearly twice the share who say they were doing so before the pandemic began ( 28 %).
• Among those who have worked at least partially remotely at some point in the last year , about seven in 10 say they would like to be working remotely at least one to two days per week a year from now ( 69 %). Just one in four hope to return to in person work full-time ( 25 %).
As the pandemic first took hold , Verizon network data showed phone calls increase by 20 % as people were connecting more over the phone than in person .
That percentage has remained steady with current phone calls coming in at almost 19 % above prepandemic times . Today the duration of those calls also remains significantly higher , with people talking almost 29 % longer on calls .
• Nearly one in three adults say they either upgraded or considered upgrading both their home Internet bandwidth ( 32 %) and their mobile data plan ( 32 %)
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