Remote and Hybrid Work Statistics 2026

How to read this page: every figure names its source and year. Survey results, official statistics, vendor claims and figures from our own directory are labeled separately, because they are not equally reliable.

How many U.S. employees work remotely or hybrid?

Gallup tracks work location for employees in remote-capable jobs, which Gallup says is about half of the U.S. workforce. Pew and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics measure other groups, so their figures are not interchangeable with Gallup's.

1. As of August 2026, 54% of U.S. employees in remote-capable jobs worked hybrid, 25% worked exclusively remote and 21% worked on-site, according to Gallup's Hybrid Work indicator.Source: Gallup, Hybrid Work indicator, 2026Survey
2. In 2019, 60% of remote-capable U.S. employees worked solely on-site, 32% hybrid and 8% exclusively remote; by early 2025 the split was 55% hybrid, 26% exclusively remote and 19% on-site.Source: Gallup, The Post-Pandemic Workplace: The Experiment Continues (2025), 2025Survey
3. Hybrid employees spend 46% of their workweek on-site, about 2.3 days, up from 42% in 2022, but the rise happened in 2023 and has not moved since.Source: Gallup, Hybrid Work in Retreat? Barely. (2025), 2025Survey
4. In the technology sector, 47% of remote-capable employees were exclusively remote, 45% hybrid and 9% fully on-site in Gallup's 2025 data.Source: Gallup, Hybrid Work in Retreat? Barely. (2025), 2025Survey
5. 35% of U.S. workers with jobs that can be done from home worked from home all the time and 41% worked hybrid in Pew's 2023 survey of 5,775 workers; 61% of all U.S. workers do not have jobs that can be done from home.Source: Pew Research Center, About a third of U.S. workers who can work from home do so all the time (2023), 2023Survey
6. 33% of employed Americans did some or all of their work at home on days they worked in 2024, about the same as 35% in 2023.Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, American Time Use Survey 2024, 2024Official statistics
7. In 2024, 50% of employed Americans with a bachelor's degree or higher worked at home on days they worked, against 5.0% of those without a high school diploma.Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, American Time Use Survey 2024, 2024Official statistics

How common is remote work in Europe?

European sources use different definitions. Eurofound counts working from home at least sometimes, while Eurostat counts people who usually work from home, meaning at least half of their days worked over four weeks. The two produce very different shares.

1. The share of European employees working from home at least sometimes rose from 8% in 2015 to 22% in 2024, according to Eurofound's European Working Conditions Survey 2024.Source: Eurofound, EWCS 2024 (press release on working from home), 2024Official statistics
2. In 2024, 41% of employees in Luxembourg and 38% in both the Netherlands and Sweden worked from home at least sometimes, against 8% in Bulgaria, 7% in Hungary, 6% in Italy and 4% in Romania.Source: Eurofound, EWCS 2024 (press release on working from home), 2024Official statistics
3. Between 2015 and 2024, working from home at least sometimes rose by 30 percentage points in Luxembourg and 26 in Germany, while Hungary and Romania saw no meaningful change.Source: Eurofound, EWCS 2024 (press release on working from home), 2024Official statistics
4. In 2024, 60% of managers and 57% of professionals in the EU-27 teleworked in some form, and so did 61% of workers in financial services.Source: Eurofound, A new world of work, EWCS 2024 first findings, 2024Official statistics
5. 8.8% of workers in the EU usually worked from home in 2025, ranging from 20.5% in Finland and 19.2% in Ireland to 1.3% in Romania (Eurostat data as reported by Euronews).Source: Eurostat labour force survey, reported by Euronews (2026), 2025Official statistics
6. In 2025, 7.3% of EU employees usually worked from home, compared with 18.9% of the self-employed, and 14.2% of EU workers worked from home sometimes.Source: Eurostat (dataset lfsa_ehomp), reported by Remote Work Europe (2026), 2025Official statistics
7. In Eurofound's 2024 e-survey, 41% of respondents worked entirely from the workplace, up from 36% in 2023.Source: Eurofound, Living and Working in the EU e-survey 2024 (press release), 2024Official statistics

What are employers doing: return to office or flexibility?

1. 80% of the Fortune 500 chief human resources officers in a Gallup roundtable (n=135, June to July 2023) said they had no plans to decrease remote flexibility in the next 12 months.Source: Gallup, The Future of the Office Has Arrived: It's Hybrid (2023), 2023Survey
2. Federal government hybrid work in the U.S. fell from 61% in late 2024 to 28% in Q2 2025, and 46% of federal employees were fully on-site, against a national average of 21%.Source: Gallup, Hybrid Work in Retreat? Barely. (2025), 2025Survey
3. In 2025, 34% of hybrid employees said their schedule is entirely up to them, 35% said their manager or team decides and 31% said their employer or leadership sets it.Source: Gallup, Hybrid Work in Retreat? Barely. (2025), 2025Survey
4. 91% of employees whose team decides the hybrid schedule see it as fair, compared with 73% when the employer decides.Source: Gallup, Hybrid Work in Retreat? Barely. (2025), 2025Survey
5. 63% of hybrid workers who are not self-employed said in 2023 that their employer requires them to be in person a set number of days per week or month.Source: Pew Research Center (2023), 2023Survey
6. 73% of U.S. workers said their company had not changed its remote or hybrid policy in the past year (Owl Labs survey of 2,000 full-time workers, July 2025).Source: Owl Labs, State of Hybrid Work 2025, 2025Survey
7. Bloom says about 80% of U.S. companies now offer some form of remote work, and about 20% do not.Source: Stanford SIEPR, Hybrid work is a win-win-win (2024), 2024Study
8. Remote-capable workers forced back on-site reported feeling respected at 35% in 2022, down from 46% before.Source: Gallup, The Post-Pandemic Workplace: The Experiment Continues (2025), 2022Survey

What do we know about productivity, engagement and retention?

The strongest evidence is a randomized trial; survey evidence on engagement is mixed and differs by measure and year.

1. In a randomized trial with 1,612 employees (395 managers and 1,217 non-managers) at Trip.com in Shanghai, resignations fell 33% among those moved from full-time office work to a hybrid schedule; performance reviews and promotions were tracked for up to two years afterward.Source: Stanford SIEPR, Hybrid work is a win-win-win (2024), 2024Study
2. In August 2026, 32% of exclusively remote U.S. employees were engaged, against 31% of hybrid, 28% of on-site remote-capable and 27% of on-site non-remote-capable employees.Source: Gallup, Hybrid Work indicator, 2026Survey
3. Globally in 2025, 30% of exclusively remote employees were engaged, compared with 25% of hybrid, 24% of on-site remote-capable and 17% of on-site non-remote-capable employees.Source: Gallup, State of the Global Workplace 2026, 2025Survey
4. Globally in 2025, 46% of hybrid employees and 46% of on-site remote-capable employees reported stress the previous day, against 41% of exclusively remote employees.Source: Gallup, State of the Global Workplace 2026, 2025Survey
5. 56% of U.S. workers who work from home at least sometimes say it helps them get work done and meet deadlines, 7% say it hurts and 37% say neither.Source: Pew Research Center (2023), 2023Survey
6. Among those who work from home at least sometimes, 36% say it hurts mentorship opportunities and 53% say it hurts their connection with co-workers.Source: Pew Research Center (2023), 2023Survey
7. 69% of managers said hybrid or remote work made their team more productive, and 51% of workers said they were more productive (12% of managers and 6% of workers said less).Source: Owl Labs, State of Hybrid Work 2025, 2025Survey

What challenges do managers face with hybrid teams?

See our guides on one-on-one meetings and a team communication plan for practical routines.

1. 48% of leaders and managers named communication and 44% named collaboration as their top challenge in leading hybrid teams.Source: Gallup, Hybrid Work and Productivity: What the Data Show, 2026Survey
2. Only 54% of managers who supervise remote workers strongly agreed in 2025 that they trust their teams to be productive remotely, and only 57% of employees said they feel trusted.Source: Gallup, Hybrid Work in Retreat? Barely. (2025), 2025Survey
3. Only 21% of hybrid workers had received hybrid-work training, and 28% of hybrid managers had been trained to lead a hybrid team.Source: Gallup, Hybrid Work and Productivity: What the Data Show, 2026Survey
4. 48% of hybrid workers said their team had not discussed a plan for collaborating in a hybrid setting; teams with a formal plan were 66% more likely to be engaged and 29% less likely to be burned out.Source: Gallup, Hybrid Work and Productivity: What the Data Show, 2026Survey
5. 54% of employers trained managers on leading hybrid teams in 2025, according to workers surveyed by Owl Labs.Source: Owl Labs, State of Hybrid Work 2025, 2025Survey
6. 30% of European respondents said in 2024 that they always or frequently worry about work outside working hours, up from 24% in 2022 and 2023.Source: Eurofound, Living and Working in the EU e-survey 2024 (press release), 2024Official statistics

What do employees want?

1. In November 2025, 61% of remote-capable U.S. employees preferred hybrid work, 33% preferred exclusively remote and 6% preferred on-site.Source: Gallup, Hybrid Work indicator, 2025Survey
2. As of May 2024, 93% of U.S. employees in remote-capable jobs preferred to work remotely at least some of the week.Source: Gallup, Employee Wellbeing Hinges on Management, Not Work Mode (2024), 2024Survey
3. Six in 10 exclusively remote workers said they would be extremely likely to look for a new job if remote flexibility were removed.Source: Gallup, Hybrid Work and Productivity: What the Data Show, 2026Survey
4. If flexibility were removed, 40% of U.S. workers said they would job-hunt and 5% would quit; 34% called a full-time office requirement a deal-breaker.Source: Owl Labs, State of Hybrid Work 2025, 2025Survey
5. 17% of recent quitters in McKinsey's American Opportunity Survey said they left in the past year because of changes in working arrangements.Source: McKinsey American Opportunity Survey, reported by HR Dive, 2024Survey
6. 24% of European respondents wanted to work exclusively from home in 2024, up from 13% in 2020, and more than half wanted to work from home several times a week.Source: Eurofound, Living and Working in the EU e-survey 2024 (press release), 2024Official statistics

Methodology

We used pages we opened directly: Gallup's Hybrid Work indicator and articles, the Gallup State of the Global Workplace 2026, Pew Research Center, BLS American Time Use Survey 2024, Eurofound's 2024 European Working Conditions Survey and e-survey, Eurostat figures as reported by Euronews and Remote Work Europe, Stanford SIEPR's summary of the Trip.com trial, McKinsey data via HR Dive and the Owl Labs 2025 survey of 2,000 U.S. workers. Each fact gives the data year, or the publication year when fieldwork dates are not stated, and is labeled survey, official, study or vendor-claim.

Limits: definitions differ. Gallup counts remote-capable employees only, Eurofound counts working from home at least sometimes, and Eurostat counts people who usually work from home, so shares should not be compared across sources. The Trip.com trial covered one Chinese company.

Owl Labs sells video conferencing hardware, so we treat its survey with that in mind. Several widely repeated figures (for example about productivity gains) were excluded when we could not confirm them on the original page. See our editorial process and the companion page on employee onboarding statistics.

Frequently asked questions

What percentage of employees work remotely or hybrid?

In the U.S., Gallup found 54% of remote-capable employees working hybrid, 25% exclusively remote and 21% on-site in August 2026. In Europe, Eurofound reports 22% of employees working from home at least sometimes in 2024, while Eurostat reports 8.8% usually working from home in 2025. The definitions differ.

Is hybrid work declining?

Gallup's data show a stable pattern since 2022 rather than a retreat. Hybrid workers spent 46% of the workweek on-site in 2025, up from 42% in 2022, and the rise happened in 2023. The exceptions are specific sectors, such as the U.S. federal government, where hybrid work fell from 61% to 28%.

Does remote work reduce productivity?

A randomized trial at Trip.com found resignations fell 33% under a hybrid schedule, and performance and promotions were tracked for up to two years. In Owl Labs' 2025 survey, 69% of managers said hybrid or remote work made their teams more productive. One Chinese company and one vendor survey are not conclusive for every workplace.

What is the biggest challenge for managers of hybrid teams?

Gallup reports that 48% of leaders and managers name communication and 44% name collaboration as their top hybrid challenge. Only 28% of hybrid managers had been trained to lead a hybrid team. Our guide to one-on-one meetings offers a routine for regular contact.

What do employees prefer?

In November 2025, Gallup found 61% of remote-capable U.S. employees preferred hybrid, 33% exclusively remote and 6% on-site. In Europe, 24% of respondents in Eurofound's 2024 e-survey wanted to work exclusively from home, up from 13% in 2020.