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Year-over-year change in the median share of services-producing businesses offering remote work arrangements, self-contained labour areas and urban labour markets

% -40 -30 -20 -10 0 10 20 30 40 Q1 Q2 2023 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 2024 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 2025 Q3 Q4 Self-contained labour areasSelf-contained labour areas Urban labour marketsUrban labour markets
Note(s):
Q = quarter.
Source(s):
Canadian Survey on Business Conditions (5318), Business Register (1105) and 2021 Census of Population (3901).

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Year-over-year change in the median share of services-producing businesses offering remote work arrangements, self-contained labour areas and urban labour markets, %
  Self-contained labour areas Urban labour markets
First quarter 2023 -1.2 -15.7
Second quarter 2023 4.7 6.0
Third quarter 2023 2.5 16.2
Fourth quarter 2023 2.8 0.8
First quarter 2024 -6.1 13.8
Second quarter 2024 -14.8 -15.6
Third quarter 2024 11.1 -14.2
Fourth quarter 2024 -3.6 -17.1
First quarter 2025 -6.5 -31.4
Second quarter 2025 19.2 20.2
Third quarter 2025 -0.2 15.6
Fourth quarter 2025 8.5 33.7
Note(s):
Q = quarter.
Source(s):
Canadian Survey on Business Conditions (5318), Business Register (1105) and 2021 Census of Population (3901).
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