Olive Jobs Data Report
The Remote Work Reality: 86% of Open Jobs Are Onsite
Across 1.8 million active postings, 86% are onsite and just 7% are fully remote. The remote-work boom was mostly a tech-bubble story.
Has remote work taken over? The headlines say yes; the job postings say no. We classified the work-location policy of 1.8 million active openings — and across the broad labor market, it isn't close: the office won.
Key findings
- 85.9% of active postings are onsite — nearly six in seven.
- Just 7.1% are fully remote — about one in fourteen.
- 6.4% are hybrid, plus a further 0.6% left flexible.
- Put together, only about 14% of jobs offer any location flexibility at all.
The work-location split
| Work location | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Onsite | 1,567,956 | 85.9% |
| Fully remote | 130,009 | 7.1% |
| Hybrid | 117,358 | 6.4% |
| Flexible | 10,294 | 0.6% |
Remote work is a tech story
The "everyone works remotely now" narrative comes from a real place — it's just a narrow one. When we look only at the tech and startup slice of the market, the fully-remote share more than doubles, to about 15.5%. Tech genuinely is twice as remote-friendly as everyone else.
But tech is a sliver of the economy. Across the full market — retail, healthcare, manufacturing, logistics, government, the trades — the work mostly can't be done from a laptop, and the numbers show it. The remote-work boom was concentrated where the cameras were pointed.
What it means for your search
If remote is a hard requirement, plan for a narrow funnel: only about one role in fourteen will qualify, so you'll need to apply widely, lean on filters, and weight your search toward tech-adjacent employers. If you're flexible, say so — being open to onsite or hybrid work roughly doubles the roles available to you, and a willingness to be in the building a few days a week opens up 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 1.8 million active job postings.
Based on 1,825,617 active job postings from roughly 9,600 distinct employers, indexed as of June 21, 2026 (88.7% US). The sample spans a broad cross-section of employers and industries across the US economy, not any single sector. Figures are posting counts, so the same role may appear more than once. Work-location policy is normalized from posting text and is partly inferred; the hybrid/flexible boundary is fuzzy. This is a dated snapshot, not a time trend.
Cite this report: “Olive Jobs, The Remote Work Reality: 86% of Open Jobs Are Onsite, June 21, 2026.” Questions or a custom cut of the data? Get in touch.