Thursday, October 19, 2006

Bloggers do it at home

Probably not the most earth-shattering piece of news. With the fear of retribution from employers, if you blog at or about work, then it is perhaps not surprising that so many bloggers choose or are restricted to blogging at home. However, what has surprised me is the number of respondents whose place of work is actually at home. As a previous commenter has said, perhaps people who work at home are more likely to blog a) because they have the time which would otherwise be used commuting and b) they are keener to interact with the human race after working alone all day.
Remember that the figures below are very provisional (I am still hoping for more responses - particularly from the US!).

So far, I have 110 responses to the question 'Where do you do most of your blogging?' Remember that it is possible to tick more than one response to this question and so this does not mean 110 respondents!
Of these 110 responses, 86 state that they blog at home, 17 blog at the office, 4 blog as students and 3 are 'other' - mostly on the move, when away from home.
Interestingly, of the 86 home blogging responses, 36 state that home is the place of work.
When you break this 36 down into sexes and countries, we get 6 UK males, 12 UK females,7 US males and 11 US females. I obviously need to research work patterns in both countries, but I bet that more women than men work at home in the first place.

3 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Tried visiting the link you provided, but it never went anywhere. Perhaps it was down or something.

1:44 AM  
Blogger clunygrey said...

Also tried the link and it never came up.

4:05 AM  
Blogger Sarah said...

Dear Cluny and Phil
I spoke to my technical support this morning and they suggest that there may have been an outage last night. Could I possibly ask you both to try again - this is not a problem I have had before so I am really hoping that it is a one-off.
Many thanks
Sarah

9:47 AM  

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