Remote Work Statistics and Trends for 2025

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 Q2 2025 were hybrid and 12% were fully remote.

Our recent research among job seekers found that a quarter of professionals are already looking or planning to look for a new role in the second half of 2025. Just 19% said their top choice is an in-office job, while half prefer hybrid work and a quarter opt for fully remote. When asked to rank their top two workplace arrangements, the majority of job seekers (70%) included hybrid in their preferred options.

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 another recent Robert Half survey, 76% of workers said having flexibility in when and where they work influences their desire to stay with an employer.

Remote Work in 2025: 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 Q2 2025 data below highlights where flexible work opportunities are most common. For a deeper look into hiring trends and job posting activity, see our Labor Market Overview.

A horizontal bar chart titled "U.S. Hybrid And Remote Trends by Professional Field" shows the percentages of on-site, hybrid and remote roles for the Q2 2025 time period.

Senior-level roles lead the way in flexible work options

Our Q2 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.

Newly created hybrid and remote jobs—by experience level*

Senior-level (5 or more years of experience): 31% hybrid, 14% remote

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

Entry-level (0-2 years of experience): 18% hybrid, 10% 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 growth in hybrid job postings from 15% in Q2 2023 to nearly a quarter (24%) of new jobs in Q2 2025.

Fully on-site roles have declined as 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, the rate of new, fully in-office jobs continued to decline, reinforcing that flexible work arrangements are here to stay.

We have also observed that job postings for hybrid and remote positions are stabilizing. 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.

A horizontal trend line chart titled, "U.S. Year-Over-Year Online Job Posting Trends"

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 Q2 2025:

Minnesota: 33%

Massachusetts: 32%

New York: 31%

Oregon: 28%

North Carolina: 28%

To see the full results from our analysis of remote and hybrid work trends by U.S. state, view our infographics.

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 Q2 2025:

San Francisco, CA: 33%

Minneapolis, MN: 33%

Boston, MA: 32%

New York, NY: 31%

Portland, OR: 29%

Sacramento, CA: 28%

Austin, TX: 28%

Phoenix, AZ: 28%

Chicago, IL: 28%

Dallas, TX: 25%

Washington, DC: 25%

Atlanta, GA: 24%

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

View the report

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 2025 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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