According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 5.9 million wage and salary workers aged 16 to 75 reported having requested or made a change to help them do their job better in July 2024, representing 4.1 percent of the employed population in that age range. The most common requests involved changes to work schedules (2.6 million), new or modified equipment (1.5 million), work tasks (1.4 million) and telework (802,000). Requests for increased accessibility to workplace facilities and special transportation were the least frequent, at 147,000 and 73,000 respectively. Employers granted the majority of requests: 70.1 percent of schedule changes, 69.2 percent of telework requests, 67.8 percent of equipment requests, and 66.0 percent of work‑task changes were fully approved.
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
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https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2026/5-9-million-wage-and-salary-workers-requested-a-change-to-help-them-do-their-job-better.htm
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