Remote work statistics and trends for 2026

By Katie Merritt, Senior Research and Data Manager, Robert Half

Employers facing hiring challenges could benefit from offering flexible work arrangements. As job seekers overwhelmingly prefer hybrid arrangements, allowing even one or two days of remote work can boost hiring efforts and enhance their appeal to top talent.

Robert Half’s latest benefits and perks survey of over 500 HR managers in the United States found that 88% of employers provide some hybrid work options, although this varies by seniority level and individual circumstances. Notably, 25% of employers currently offer hybrid work to all employees. Similarly, our database of professional job postings across the United States shows that 24% of new job postings in Q4 2025 were hybrid and 11% were fully remote.

Our recent research among job seekers found that 38% of professionals are already looking or planning to look for a new role in the first half of 2026. Just 16% said their top choice is an in-office job, and only 25% are even considering pursuing a job requiring five days in the office. Hybrid continues to reign supreme among job seekers, with 55% ranking it as their top choice with workers evenly split among those wanting 1-2 days vs 3-4 days in the office (28% and 27%, respectively).

The benefits of hiring remote and hybrid workers are clear for employers. In addition to accessing a wider talent pool and potentially attracting more skilled applicants for jobs, offering flexible work can help improve retention. In the same Robert Half survey, 47% of professionals not actively job searching cited not wanting to lose their current level of flexibility as a key reason.

Remote work in 2026: What the latest data shows

Hybrid and remote jobs outlook by profession
Senior-level roles lead the way in flexible work options
Remote and hybrid jobs outlook: continued stabilization, with one-third of jobs featuring some remote work
Hybrid work trends by geography
Methodology

Hybrid and remote jobs outlook by profession

Where can today’s job seekers find the most opportunities for flexible work, including work-from-home roles? Research for the Demand for Skilled Talent report provides insight.

We examined industries that Robert Half supports with our talent solutions to identify those with the highest rates of new hybrid and remote jobs. The Q4 2025 data below highlights where flexible work opportunities are most common.

Bar chart showing hybrid, remote, and on-site work trends across seven U.S. professional fields with data from Q4 2025.

Title: U.S. Hybrid and Remote Trends by Professional Fields Legend: Fully on-site (teal) Hybrid (navy) Fully remote (gold) The infographic displays a horizontal stacked bar chart comparing the share of roles that are fully on-site, hybrid or fully remote across seven U.S. professional fields. Percentages for each field are as follows: Marketing and creative: 56% fully on-site, 30% hybrid, 14% fully remote Technology: 58% fully on-site, 29% hybrid, 13% fully remote Legal: 59% fully on-site, 32% hybrid, 9% fully remote Finance and accounting: 64% fully on-site, 27% hybrid, 9% fully remote Human resources: 68% fully on-site, 18% hybrid, 14% fully remote Administrative and customer support: 80% fully on-site, 12% hybrid, 8% fully remote Healthcare: 80% fully on-site, 12% hybrid, 8% fully remote A note at the bottom states the data is based on Robert Half’s analysis of over 423,000 new U.S. job positions provided by TalentNeuron.

Senior-level roles lead the way in flexible work options

Our Q4 2025 analysis of new hybrid and remote jobs shows flexible work arrangements are more common for senior-level roles, but there are also opportunities for mid-level and entry-level professionals. Overall, employers are more likely to offer hybrid work arrangements than remote work options to employees at all levels. Explore how hiring demand trends are shifting across experience levels on our Labor Market Overview.

Newly created hybrid and remote jobs—by experience level*

Senior-level (5 or more years of experience): 30% hybrid, 13% remote

Mid-level (3-5 years of experience): 25% hybrid, 12% remote

Entry-level (0-2 years of experience): 18% hybrid, 9% remote

*Experience level refers to the years of relevant experience a job candidate has for a specific type of role. For example, a senior-level accountant would have five or more years of relevant experience in the accounting profession.

Remote and hybrid jobs outlook: continued stabilization, with one-third of jobs featuring some remote work

One of the most significant remote work trends we have been tracking in our research for the Demand for Skilled Talent report is the steady decline among in-office jobs throughout 2022 and 2023. Since late 2023, the level of in-office work has stabilized, despite years of headlines touting company policies to return to office.

During this time, we have continued to see hybrid options rise. We found that new, fully in-office job postings declined from 83% to 66% during 2023. And over the course of 2024 and 2025, the rates of hybrid and remote work have stabilized, reinforcing that flexible work arrangements are here to stay. This suggests many employers continue to see value in offering their employees flexible work options, like the ability to work from home either some or all of the time.

Line chart showing U.S. online job posting trends from Q4 2023 to Q4 2025.

Title: U.S. Year-Over-Year Online Job Postings Legend: Fully on-site (gold) Hybrid (blue) Fully remote (teal) The infographic displays a line chart showing the percentage of U.S. online job postings that are fully on-site, hybrid or fully remote over time. Data points are shown for Q4 2023, Q2 2024, Q4 2024, Q2 2025 and Q4 2025. Percentages by work arrangement are as follows: Q4 2023: 66% fully on-site, 21% hybrid, 13% fully remote Q2 2024: 65% fully on-site, 22% hybrid, 13% fully remote Q4 2024: 61% fully on-site, 24% hybrid, 15% fully remote Q2 2025: 64% fully on-site, 24% hybrid, 12% fully remote Q4 2025: 65% fully on-site, 24% hybrid, 11% fully remote Overall, fully on-site roles remain the majority of postings throughout the period, while hybrid work holds steady and fully remote roles peak in late 2024 before declining through 2025. A note at the bottom states the data is based on Robert Half’s analysis of over 2 million new U.S. job positions provided by TalentNeuron.

Hybrid work trends by geography

Robert Half analyzed hybrid and remote job postings across the United States to see how trends vary by location. We found many employers in more rural states—where it can be challenging to find available local talent—are offering flexible work arrangements. Meanwhile, in states with larger metro areas, hybrid roles are more common than fully remote positions.

The following five locations saw the highest prevalence of hybrid roles in Q4 2025:

New York: 32%

Massachusetts 32%

Minnesota 31%

Oregon: 28%

Colorado: 27%

Among the U.S. metro areas in focus in our geographic analysis of hybrid and remote work trends, these 12 cities saw the greatest volume of new hybrid jobs in Q4 2025:

Boston, MA: 33%

New York, NY: 31%

Minneapolis, MN: 31%

San Francisco, CA: 30%

Austin, TX: 29%

Chicago, IL: 29%

Denver, CO: 28%

Phoenix, AZ: 28%

Seattle, WA: 27%

Washington, DC: 27%

Atlanta, GA: 26%

Los Angeles, CA: 25%

Get more insights from Robert Half’s Demand for Skilled Talent report

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Robert Half’s Demand for Skilled Talent report lets you explore data on hiring and employment trends in the United States and offers tips on how to overcome hiring and retention challenges in the current labor market.

Methodology

Surveys were developed by Robert Half and conducted by independent research firms. Respondents included executives from small (1-99 employees), medium (100-999 employees), and large or enterprise (1,000+ employees) businesses in private, publicly listed and public sector organizations across the United States.

Job postings provided by TalentNeuron and categorized into more than 450 job titles within Robert Half’s 2026 Salary Guide using a proprietary mapping methodology that employs state-of-the-art large language models. This dataset includes roles across the finance and accounting, technology, marketing and creative, legal, administrative and customer support, human resources and healthcare support professions.

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