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January 2025, Paper: "How segregated are the workplaces of Americans in terms of skills? For sixty years, social scientists have worried about residential segregation (Taeuber and Taeuber, 1965; Murray, 2012; Athey et al., 2021). But the typical employed American spends more than eight hours at work on a normal workday, far more than the less than one hour per day that adults usually spend “socializing and communicating” and in “organization, civic and religious activities.”1 Moreover, events at work seem far more likely to shape long-term economic outcomes than neighborhood events. We measure the level of educational segregation in US workplaces experienced by non-college workers using the Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD) data. Educational dissimilarity of the workplace is comparable in magnitude to neighborhood racial segregation and rising. A companion paper, Dillon et al. (2025), finds that workplace segregation negatively impacts the future careers of non-college workers.2 The growing educational segregation of our workplaces may limit the ability of younger, less-skilled workers to learn on-the-job from their more educated, elder peers, diminishing the acquisition of skills that promote higher-paid future employment (Blair et. al., 2020)."