Hybrid Work Statistics 2026

As of August 2026, 54% of U.S. employees work in a hybrid arrangement, 25% work exclusively remote and 21% work on-site.

As of August 2026, 54% of U.S. employees work in a hybrid arrangement, 25% work exclusively remote and 21% work on-site.

Gallup's data from August 2026 show that the majority of remote-capable employees are currently working in a hybrid (54%) or exclusively remote arrangement (25%), with 21% working on-site.

On days they worked, 35 percent of employed people did some or all of their work at home and 70 percent of employed people did some or all of their work at their workplace.

About 26% of Paid Days in the US in July 2026 Were Work-From-Home Days

In the Past Year: 12% of Full-Time Employees Were Fully Remote, 62% Were Full-Time on Site, and 26% Were in a Hybrid Arrangement

The Pandemic Permanently Increased WFH, Equivalent to Almost 40 Years of Pre-Pandemic Growth

Fifty-one percent of employed people with a bachelor's degree or higher performed some work at home on days worked, compared with 19 percent of those with a high school diploma and no college.

Employed women (38 percent) were more likely to work at home than employed men (31 percent).

Workers with a "degree or equivalent" were 10 times more likely to hybrid work than those with no qualifications (41%, compared with 4%, respectively).

Almost half (45%) of workers with an income of £50,000 or more hybrid worked, compared with only 8% of those with an income of under £20,000 between January and March 2025.

Hybrid work was more common among full-time workers (34%) than adults in part-time jobs (18%).

Around a third (36%) of those aged 30 to 49 years were hybrid workers between January and March 2025.

Disabled workers (24%) were less likely than non-disabled workers (29%) to hybrid work between January and March 2025.

94% of US Tech firms offer work location flexibility, along with 92% of US Insurance firms.

More than a quarter (28%) of working adults in Great Britain hybrid worked between January and March 2025; the proportion of hybrid workers has gradually risen since March 2022, but those who only travel to work has declined.

About 1 in 10 (9.8%) workers had a hybrid work arrangement in May 2026, in which they worked some hours at home and some hours at locations other than home.

In contrast, the proportion of employed Canadians working exclusively from home in May 2026 (11.4%), was down 1.0 percentage points from the same month in 2025 (12.4%) and down 7.3 percentage points from May 2022 (18.7%).

In May 2026, the proportion of Canadians working exclusively outside of the home was 78.8%, higher than the corresponding proportions in May 2025 (77.6%) and May 2022 (75.0%).

In August 2025, 36% of employed people usually worked from home.

People who worked from home were more likely to: work overtime (42% of people who worked from home worked overtime, compared with 26% of those who did not work from home).

Both exclusively remote and hybrid work declined, with the percentage of respondents working entirely from the workplace increasing from 36% in 2023, to 41% in 2024.

The factsheet shows that the desire to work exclusively from home has increased among respondents since the pandemic, rising from 13% in 2020 to 24% in 2024 , and the proportion who would like to work from home multiple times a week remaining over 50% - this is despite a marked decrease in the number of remote work positions advertised.

Two-thirds of U.S. firms (66%) continue offering location flexibility.

42% of US firms on an industry-adjusted basis are Structured Hybrid, up from 20% in Q1 2023 and 38% in Q3 2024, but for the first time saw a downturn from 43% of firms last quarter.

The average US firm requires corporate employees to be in the office 2.87 days per week.

Required office time climbed 12% since early 2024, but attendance increased only 1-3%.

71% of Fortune 100 firms still offer flexibility.

67% of companies under 500 employees are Fully Flexible, covering half the US workforce.

Of the job postings analyzed in Q3 2026, 85% were fully on-site, while 11% were hybrid and just 4% were fully remote.

In addition, 36% of employers report increasing the number of days employees are required to work on-site over the past year.

Among those who aren’t currently working from home all the time, 75% say their employer has put these in-person work requirements in place, up from 63% in early 2023 .

The majority report going in 3 days (39%) or 4 days (34%) a week — both up from 2024.

When asked in November 2025 what their preferred work location would be, 61% of remote-capable employees prefer hybrid, 33% exclusively remote and said 6% said on-site work.

Hybrid is closely aligned (54% work it, 61% prefer it), but exclusively remote is slightly underrepresented relative to stated preference (25% work it vs. 33% preferred), and on-site is overrepresented relative to preference (21% work on-site vs. 6% who prefer it).

When asked in November 2025 what their preferred work location would be, 61% of remote-capable employees prefer hybrid, 33% exclusively remote and said 6% said on-site work.

Nearly half of workers in this group (46%) say that if their employer no longer allowed them to work from home, they would be unlikely to stay at their current job.

Among hybrid workers, only 24% say they’d work from home all the time if they could choose. A majority (72%) say they’d choose a hybrid arrangement.

Almost half (40%) of workers would start job hunting, 22% would expect a raise to make up for the lost flexibility, and 5% would flat out quit.

Coffee-badging is alive and well. 43% of hybrid employees admitted that they sometimes go to the office for a few hours just to show their faces.

Work teams that set their hybrid policy together are the most likely to say that the policy is fair and has a positive impact on collaboration, but as of May 2025, only 11% of employees benefit from this approach.

The net effect was to reduce attrition over the experiment by 2.4%, which against the control-group base of 7.2% was a one-third (33%) reduction in attrition (mean control = 7.20, mean treat = 4.80, t (1610) = 2.02, P = 0.043).

We also found that the 395 managers in the experiment revised their surveyed views about the effect of hybrid working on productivity, from a perceived negative effect (−2.6% on average) before the experiment to a perceived positive one (+1.0%) after the experiment.

First, more than 70% of employees WFH globally are on a hybrid schedule.

69% of managers believe that working hybrid/remotely has made their team more productive.

On average, full-time in-office/hybrid workers have a 31-minute commute, with 84% of workers commuting up to 45 minutes.