Olive Jobs Data Report
The Remote Work Reality: 83% of Job Postings Are Onsite
Across 2.4 million active postings, 83% are onsite and just 8% are fully remote. Even in the tech industries, fewer than one posting in five is.
Has remote work taken over? The headlines say yes; the job postings say no. We classified the work-location policy of 2.4 million active job postings — and across the broad labor market, it isn't close: the office won.
Key findings
- 83.3% of active postings are onsite — roughly five in six.
- Just 7.7% are fully remote — about one in thirteen.
- 8.9% are hybrid, plus a further 0.1% left flexible. In this snapshot, hybrid postings outnumber fully remote ones by about 29,000.
- Put together, only about one in six postings offer any location flexibility at all.
The work-location split
| Work location | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Onsite | 1,984,074 | 83.3% |
| Hybrid | 212,268 | 8.9% |
| Fully remote | 183,298 | 7.7% |
| Flexible | 2,780 | 0.1% |
Remote work is a tech story
The "everyone works remotely now" narrative comes from a real place — it's just a narrow one. Filter the same snapshot down to postings tagged to the tech industries — Technology, Information Technology, and Software, 598,422 postings between them — and the fully-remote share is 18.4%, more than twice the 7.7% market-wide rate. Add the 18.9% that are hybrid and more than a third of tech-industry postings offer some flexibility, against one in six across the market.
But tech is a sliver of the economy, and outside it much of the work simply isn't laptop work. The industry cuts land about where you'd expect: fully remote is 0.3% of food-service postings, 0.6% of retail, 1.3% of hospitality, 2.2% of transportation, 6.0% of manufacturing, and 9.4% of healthcare — healthcare being the single largest industry in the sample, at 538,815 postings. Remote work is concentrated where the cameras are pointed.
| Industry | Postings | Fully remote | Hybrid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Software | 41,891 | 23.7% | 23.0% |
| Financial Services | 76,082 | 20.0% | 25.4% |
| Information Technology | 123,436 | 18.7% | 16.9% |
| Technology | 475,846 | 18.1% | 19.2% |
| Government | 116,851 | 11.1% | 10.8% |
| Healthcare | 538,815 | 9.4% | 5.3% |
| Manufacturing | 150,033 | 6.0% | 7.6% |
| Hospitality | 111,263 | 1.3% | 1.5% |
| Retail | 501,791 | 0.6% | 0.8% |
| Food Service | 157,780 | 0.3% | 0.8% |
Industry tags are multi-value, so a posting can sit in more than one row and the rows don't sum to the sample.
What it means for your search
If remote is a hard requirement, plan for a narrow funnel: only about one posting in thirteen will qualify, so you'll need to apply widely, lean on filters, and weight your search toward tech-industry employers, where the rate is more than double. If you're flexible, say so — opening up to hybrid alone more than doubles what you can apply to, from 7.7% of postings to 16.6%, and a willingness to be in the building a few days a week reaches a large share of the market that strict-remote searches skip entirely. Our job-search strategy guide walks through building a realistic target list, and where to find entry-level jobs covers filtering boards by location.
Methodology & caveats
Dataset. Normalized work-location policy (onsite / hybrid / remote / flexible) across 2.4 million active job postings, broken out by employer industry.
Based on 2,382,420 active job postings from roughly 17,000 distinct employers, indexed as of August 1, 2026 (85.6% US). The sample spans a broad cross-section of employers and industries across the US economy, not any single sector. Every figure counts postings, not openings: the large majority of the sample reaches us through a single upstream aggregator that re-publishes employer openings nationwide, and we do not de-duplicate across sources, so the same role can appear more than once and the sample size should not be read as a count of distinct jobs available. Rates are shares of postings, which is why they are stable even though the raw count is not a headcount of openings. This edition follows a full re-extraction of the corpus that materially improved how often a posting's skills, degree, and experience requirements are read out of its text, so figures are not directly comparable with earlier editions of this report. Work-location policy is normalized from posting text and is partly inferred; the hybrid/flexible boundary is fuzzy. Industry cuts filter on the posting's extracted industry tags over the same snapshot — "tech industries" means the 598,422 postings tagged Technology, Information Technology, or Software, and tags are multi-value, so industry slices overlap and do not sum to the sample. This is a dated snapshot, not a time trend: it cannot show whether any share is rising or falling, and figures are never compared across snapshots.
Cite this report: “Olive Jobs, The Remote Work Reality: 83% of Job Postings Are Onsite, August 1, 2026.” Questions or a custom cut of the data? Get in touch.