According to a new report, some 50 million workers in the U.S. have jobs that allow for at least part-time telework, but only 2.9 million are actually doing it.

But considering the lack of clarity in definitions of telework, determining the accuracy of that number, and other telework data, is tricky, as Gary Audin writes over at NoJitter. The report he references is the result of some numbers-crunching from a mix of mostly-governmental data sources. Our guess is that it gives a more-or-less accurate overall view, but we wouldn’t stake a business decision on any specific data point. More...