This weekly feature from S&P Global Market Intelligence, in collaboration with internet service-monitoring company ThousandEyes, aims to give remote workers insights into internet service disruptions. Global internet outages climbed 22% to 278 in the week of March 12, marking a return to levels last seen in the third week of January, according to data from ThousandEyes, a network-monitoring service owned by Cisco Systems Inc. U.S. disruptions increased 44% to 102 in the measured period, comprising 37% of all global outages, up from 31% in the week of March 5. However, business-hours disruptions across all regions decreased during the week, with the global total falling 16 percentage points to 34%. U.S. interruptions during business hours dropped 18 percentage points to 25%, while such outages in Europe, the Middle East and Africa also decreased 18 percentage points to 36%. Business-hours outages in the Asia-Pacific region dipped 7 percentage points to 49%.