How Many Jobs Are Remote? 6% of Postings That State One
Of the 920,000 active postings that state a work arrangement, 79% are onsite, 14% hybrid and 6% fully remote. Even in the tech industries, about one in six is.
Has remote work taken over? The headlines say yes; the job postings say no. We read the work arrangement in 1.6 million active job postings. Of those, 920,405 state one, and among them it isn't close: the office won.
Key findings
- 78.8% of postings that state a work arrangement are onsite — about four in five.
- Just 6.0% are fully remote — about one in 17.
- 14.2% are hybrid, plus a further 1.0% left flexible. Hybrid postings outnumber fully remote ones by more than two to one.
- Put together, about one in five offers any location flexibility at all.
- The other 41.4% of postings don't say. We don't guess at those, so every share here is out of the postings that do.
The work-location split
| Work location | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Onsite | 725,446 | 78.8% |
| Hybrid | 130,666 | 14.2% |
| Fully remote | 55,399 | 6.0% |
| Flexible | 8,894 | 1.0% |
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, 335,229 postings between them, 182,305 of which state an arrangement — and the fully-remote share is 15.7%, more than twice the market-wide rate. Add the 27.7% that are hybrid and the 3.3% left flexible, and nearly half of tech-industry postings offer some flexibility, against one in five across the market.
But tech is only part 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 0.1% of food-service postings, 0.8% of hospitality, 0.9% of retail, 2.8% of transportation, 4.3% of manufacturing, and 6.3% of healthcare — healthcare being the single largest industry in the sample, with 440,213 postings. Consulting is the odd one out: only 5.3% fully remote, but 63.7% hybrid. Remote work is concentrated where the cameras are pointed.
| Industry | States a policy | Fully remote | Hybrid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Software | 75,885 | 24.1% | 28.3% |
| Information Technology | 15,035 | 11.6% | 26.7% |
| Technology | 114,474 | 11.4% | 27.9% |
| Financial Services | 32,547 | 6.5% | 32.5% |
| Government | 50,722 | 6.5% | 21.1% |
| Healthcare | 254,899 | 6.3% | 8.9% |
| Consulting | 34,569 | 5.3% | 63.7% |
| Manufacturing | 48,605 | 4.3% | 12.7% |
| Transportation | 17,432 | 2.8% | 18.1% |
| Retail | 133,277 | 0.9% | 1.8% |
| Hospitality | 51,689 | 0.8% | 2.2% |
| Food Service | 89,566 | 0.1% | 0.3% |
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 17 will qualify, so you'll need to apply widely, lean on filters, and weight your search toward software employers, where the rate is four times the market's. If you're flexible, say so — opening up to hybrid alone more than triples what you can apply to, from 6.0% of postings to 20.2%, 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 the 920,405 of 1.6 million active job postings that state one, broken out by employer industry.
Based on 1,570,187 active job postings from roughly 30,700 distinct employers, indexed as of November 3, 2026 (98.1% 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: about four in five postings reach us through a single upstream aggregator that re-publishes employer openings nationwide, and though we merge copies of a posting where we can, some duplicates remain, so 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 is not directly comparable with earlier ones: the index has since dropped most non-US postings and re-read the corpus, and a field a posting does not state now stays empty rather than being filled in. Work-location policy is normalized from posting text; the hybrid/flexible boundary is fuzzy. 649,782 postings (41.4%) state no arrangement and are left out of every share, because silence is not a policy. Industry cuts filter on the posting's extracted industry tags over the same snapshot — "tech industries" means the 335,229 postings tagged Technology, Information Technology, or Software, 182,305 of which state an arrangement — 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, How Many Jobs Are Remote? 6% of Postings That State One, November 3, 2026.” Questions or a custom cut of the data? Get in touch.