MORE than 10 per cent of the workforce in Worcestershire and Herefordshire now work mainly from home.
They include people who live above the shop, those whose home is their office or workplace and people who use their homes as a base to work from.
A new analysis shows that more than two million workers in England now work mainly at or from home, an increase of 112 per cent since 1991.
The national average is 9.2 per cent of the workforce, compared with 10.5 per cent in Worcestershire and Herefordshire.
The highest in the country is 14 per cent in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
The growth is related to the use of new technology like laptop computers, e-mail and mobile phones.
The new analysis from the 1991 and 2001 census was compiled at the University of Durham for GMB London Region as part of a nationwide study into transport people use to get to work.
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