evidence: Ability to work from home: evidence from two surveys and implications for the labor market in the COVID-19 pandemic [...] Our analysis of merged O*NET–ATUS data and merged O*NET–NLSY79 data indicates that about 45 percent of U.S. employment is in occupations in which telework is feasible. However, a much lower percentage of workers actually worked at home prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, only a little more than 10 percent of workers in the ATUS spent any paid workday working only at home, and a similar percentage in the NLSY79 usually spent more than 8 hours a week working at home. Thus, according to both surveys, the implied takeup rate—that is, the percentage of workers who were in occupations in which telework is technologically feasible and who actually worked at home—was quite low prior to the pandemic. According to the ATUS, the takeup rate was about 25 percent. In the NLSY79, with its sample of older workers, the takeup rate was about 22 percent.