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 to their employees. If they currently offer remote or hybrid options, boosting efforts to promote that perk could enhance their appeal to top talent. In Q1 2025, 4 in 10 jobs allow some amount of remote work, although this varies by location, functional area and seniority.

Research for Robert Half’s Demand for Skilled Talent report found that 29% of professionals are already looking or planning to look for a new role in the first half of 2025. The desire for more work flexibility is a top motivator for their job hunt. Nearly half (48%) of job seekers said they would like to find a hybrid role while over a quarter (26%) said they would prefer a fully remote job.

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 boost 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
Remote work statistics show senior-level professionals have more options to work from home
Remote and hybrid jobs outlook: continued stabilization
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 opportunities to work from home? Research for the Demand for Skilled Talent report provides insight.

We examined industries that Robert Half supports with our talent solutions to determine which ones have the highest rates of new hybrid and remote jobs. Below is an overview of our findings, based on data from Q1 2025.

A horizontal bar chart titled "Q1 2025 U.S. Job Postings" shows the percentages of on-site, hybrid and remote roles for the Q1 2025 time period.

Remote work statistics show senior-level professionals have more options to work from home

Our analysis of the new hybrid and remote jobs created in Q1 2025 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, 15% remote

Mid-level (3-5 years of experience): 24% hybrid, 13% 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 four in 10 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 9% in Q1 2023 to nearly a quarter (24%) of new jobs at the start of 2025. Fully remote jobs have also increased over the last two years from 10% in Q1 2023 to 13% in Q1 2025 but have been stable over the last six quarters.

Fully on-site roles are continuing to trend downward 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, solidifying 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, "Remote and Hybrid Jobs Over Time."

Hybrid work trends by geography

Robert Half analyzed data by geography to understand how hybrid and remote work trends are developing across the United States.

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, the trend favors hybrid work over fully remote options.

The following five locations saw the highest prevalence of hybrid roles in Q1 2025:

Massachusetts: 31%

Minnesota: 30%

New York: 29%

Oregon: 29%

Colorado: 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 Q1 2025:

Sacramento, CA: 34%

San Francisco, CA: 33%

Boston, MA: 32%

Portland, OR: 31%

Minneapolis, MN: 31%

Austin, TX: 30%

New York, NY: 29%

Phoenix, AZ: 29%

Chicago, IL: 26%

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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