 people working remotely tend to work fewer hours more on what's trending from megan lennhart senior economics reporter at barron's megan what are we learning yeah so we actually got some new survey data from the bureau of labor statistics it's they do this on an annual basis it's called the american time use survey and what they do is they actually track what you do with your time and this is a really interesting survey they've been doing it for a number of years now and of course this year they were looking at a variety of factors one of the ones that i found more interesting