The post-RTO settling point
After the 2023–2024 return-to-office push from major employers (JPMorgan, Amazon, Google partial), the US workforce has settled at roughly 57% fully in-office, 29% hybrid, and 14% fully remote. That fully-remote share has been stable for 6 quarters per BLS BTOS data.
By industry
- Tech / information — 75% hybrid+remote
- Finance + insurance — 56% hybrid+remote
- Professional services — 52% hybrid+remote
- Education — 24% hybrid+remote
- Retail trade — 12% hybrid+remote
- Manufacturing — 9% hybrid+remote
- Healthcare — 9% hybrid+remote
- Hospitality + food — 4% hybrid+remote
SMB nuance
Small businesses (under 100 employees) skew slightly MORE remote than large employers — 33% hybrid+remote vs 29% at Fortune 500. The reason is structural: SMBs are over-represented in professional services and under-represented in retail + hospitality, both of which skew the result.
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