How should employers report telecommuters and remote workers on the EEO-1 survey?

According  to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), employees who work from home, or telework, should be included on the report for the location to which they report. For example, the headquarters report must include those employees who work from home but report to the corporate office. Typically, any employees who telecommute will report in to a local, regional or corporate office. For example, sales professionals who work exclusively off-site will generally report either to a regional sales office or a corporate sales department. Determining from which office the home-based employees are managed will be important to accurately reporting these individuals.

One additional complication that employers may encounter will be the manner in which the employee's location information is recorded in the HRIS or other internal reporting system. It is often necessary to record the employee's home address as his or her office address for tax purposes. Therefore, manual adjustments may need to be made to automated EEO-1 reports generated by the system to ensure that telecommuters are properly reported and do not appear on separate establishment reports.