Remote Work Statistics and Trends for 2024

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

Employers facing hiring challenges in today’s labor market may want to consider offering flexible work arrangements. If they already do, stepping up their efforts to promote that fact could help them attract top talent.

Research for the midyear update of Robert Half’s Demand for Skilled Talent report found that 37% of U.S. job seekers are interested in a fully remote position, while 60% would like a hybrid role. And 31% of professionals planning to look for a new role in the second half of 2024, or who already have a search in progress, said the desire for more work flexibility is a top motivator for their job hunting.

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, 38% of workers who aren’t looking for jobs right now said it is because they don’t want to lose the level of flexibility they have in their current role.

Where can today’s job seekers find the most opportunities for flexible work? 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 the third quarter of 2024.

Our analysis of the new hybrid and remote jobs created in Q3 2024 shows that flexible work arrangements are more common for senior-level roles, but there are opportunities for mid-level and entry-level professionals, too. Overall, hybrid work arrangements are more commonly offered by employers than remote work options.

Newly created hybrid and remote jobs — by experience level*

Senior-level (5 or more years of experience): 29% hybrid, 17% remote

Mid-level (3-5 years of experience): 22% hybrid, 13% remote

Entry-level (0-2 years of experience): 17% 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.

One of the most significant remote work trends we have been tracking in our research for the Demand for Skilled Talent report is that employers offering flexible work options are creating more hybrid jobs than hiring for remote positions.

Fully on-site roles are continuing to trend downward. We found that new, fully in-office job postings declined from 83% to 68% during 2023. And since the start of 2024, the rate of new, fully in-office jobs has hovered between 64% and 66%, indicating a slowdown in the number of new employers offering flexible options.

We have observed that job postings for hybrid and remote positions are also stabilizing, suggesting that many employers continue to see value in offering flexible work options to employees.

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

We found that 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 is more toward hybrid work than fully remote.

The following five locations saw the highest prevalence of hybrid roles in Q3 2024:

District of Columbia: 30%

New York: 28%

Minnesota: 27%

Massachusetts: 26%

California: 25%

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

And finally, among the U.S. cities in focus in our geographic analysis of hybrid and remote work trends, these 10 locations saw the greatest volume of new hybrid jobs in Q3 2024:

Sacramento, CA: 36%

San Francisco, CA: 31%

New York, NY: 31%

Phoenix, AZ: 30%

Boston, MA: 28%

Portland, OR: 28%

Minneapolis, MN: 28%

Austin, TX: 27%

Seattle, WA: 26%

Philadelphia, PA: 25%

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.

Robert Half can help your organization source the best available professionals from virtually anywhere for contract and permanent roles.

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 Textkernel and 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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