COVID-19 impact on annual remote working Google searches worldwide 2021

The global coronavirus pandemic has led to an increased interest in work from home setups, as many businesses were forced to close their doors due to health and safety concerns. In March 2020, at the start of the pandemic global online searches regarding "remote working" and "work from home" were at an all-time high. A year on, interest has dropped across all work-from-home related terms although "work from home" continues to generate the most queries.

Interest in remote working and related search terms in Google in the past 12 months worldwide including during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak as of April 2021, by week

Characteristic	Remote working	Work from home	Best webcam	Best computer monitor	Best docking station
Apr 11, 2021	56	82	43	46	27
Apr 04, 2021	72	79	48	42	50
Mar 28, 2021	62	78	44	48	55
Mar 21, 2021	70	78	40	38	46
Mar 14, 2021	64	68	50	41	47
Mar 07, 2021	68	32	49	50	46
Feb 28, 2021	70	33	44	40	30
Feb 21, 2021	66	37	41	43	53
Feb 14, 2021	75	32	47	61	56
Feb 07, 2021	78	33	48	46	42
Jan 31, 2021	77	36	54	48	62
Jan 24, 2021	80	35	55	52	50
Jan 17, 2021	79	37	52	54	45
Jan 10, 2021	79	37	55	62	65
Jan 03, 2021	81	41	62	63	56
Dec 27, 2020	89	31	64	69	42
Dec 20, 2020	90	25	48	56	55
Dec 13, 2020	76	33	55	48	71
Dec 06, 2020	78	34	59	59	70
Nov 29, 2020	71	38	65	53	80
Nov 22, 2020	79	31	57	80	62
Nov 15, 2020	81	36	60	59	37
Nov 08, 2020	74	35	52	28	33
Nov 01, 2020	71	32	38	53	40
Oct 25, 2020	76	35	53	45	45
Oct 18, 2020	79	40	54	44	66
Oct 11, 2020	79	36	57	60	45
Oct 04, 2020	75	36	44	60	43
Sep 27, 2020	64	36	52	46	38
Sep 20, 2020	74	40	61	53	34
Sep 13, 2020	73	40	64	63	56
Sep 06, 2020	79	39	70	76	54
Aug 30, 2020	67	38	84	86	66
Aug 23, 2020	68	40	78	67	74
Aug 16, 2020	77	39	90	75	60
Aug 09, 2020	70	40	83	61	57
Aug 02, 2020	74	42	70	71	63
Jul 26, 2020	77	46	69	62	48
Jul 19, 2020	72	46	71	61	45
Jul 12, 2020	74	46	72	82	53
Jul 05, 2020	83	45	65	63	55
Jun 28, 2020	87	40	55	62	62
Jun 21, 2020	82	41	73	57	54
Jun 14, 2020	89	40	67	63	50
Jun 07, 2020	91	38	74	70	36
May 31, 2020	78	40	67	74	57
May 24, 2020	78	40	72	69	42
May 17, 2020	73	42	73	80	51
May 10, 2020	78	47	78	59	72
May 03, 2020	71	39	78	84	38
Apr 26, 2020	80	47	73	84	38
Apr 19, 2020	83	43	82	73	66
Apr 12, 2020	78	48	87	82	77
Apr 05, 2020	85	53	93	100	50
Mar 29, 2020	89	64	96	76	78
Mar 22, 2020	94	89	100	100	85
Mar 15, 2020	100	100	68	97	100

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April 2021

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Worldwide

Survey time period

March 2020 to April 2021

Supplementary notes

*Numbers represent search interest relative to the highest point on the chart for the given region and time. A value of 100 is the peak popularity for the term. A value of 50 means that the term is half as popular. A score of 0 means there was not enough data for this term.

Each of the terms have been analyzed using Google Trends, worldwide, across the past 12 months.

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