"The stability is striking, because it resists the narrative of a sweeping return to full-time on-site work. The broader mix of where Americans work has steadied as well. The WFH Research team's Survey of Working Arrangements and Attitudes shows that remote, hybrid and on-site shares have moved within a narrow band since 2023, reflecting a new normal rather than a temporary detour. Taken together, these signals point to habit formation."
"There are exceptions worth watching, of course. In technology, remote-capable employees split almost evenly between fully remote and hybrid, and only a small minority are fully on-site. In federal government, policy moved behavior far more abruptly. After a change in direction in 2025, the share of federal employees working in flexible hybrid arrangements fell sharply, while fully on-site rose to levels well above the national average for remote-capable workers. Those changes show up clearly in the Gallup data and mark Washington as an outlier."
Work location patterns in the U.S. have settled into a stable hybrid equilibrium since 2022, with only small shifts in recent quarters. The share of remote-capable employees in hybrid arrangements fell from 55 percent to 51 percent while fully on-site and fully remote each rose by about two percentage points. Hybrid employees spend about 46 percent of the week in the office, roughly 2.3 days. Overall remote, hybrid and on-site shares have moved within a narrow band since 2023, indicating habit formation. Technology firms show an even split between fully remote and hybrid, while a 2025 federal policy change sharply reduced flexible hybrid and increased on-site work.
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