Hybrid Work statistics
62 statistics · 20 primary sources · data as of November 2026
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Section 01
Hybrid workers spend 46% of their workweek in the office, equivalent to about 2.3 days, up from 42% in 2022.
Gallup · 2025 · Gallup Q2 2025 survey of U.S. remote-capable employees; nearly all the increase occurred in 2023, with no movement since · source
In the U.S. tech sector, remote-capable employees are equally likely to be fully remote (47%) as hybrid (45%), with just 9% fully on-site.
Gallup · 2025 · Gallup Q2 2025 survey of U.S. remote-capable tech employees · source
The share of U.S. federal employees in a flexible hybrid model plummeted from 61% in late 2024 to 28% in Q2 2025, and 46% of federal workers are now fully on-site.
Gallup · 2025 · Gallup Q2 2025 survey, following the end of most federal remote work arrangements · source
Work from home accounts for about 25% of all paid U.S. workdays as of 2025, 3.5 times its 2019 level, with little change since early 2023.
Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (Barrero, Bloom, Davis) · 2026 · NBER working paper 'Why Working from Home Will Stick'; Survey of Working Arrangements and Attitudes (SWAA) cross-checked with American Time Use Survey (2019 rate 7.2%) · source
80% of Fortune 500 companies have staff on a hybrid schedule, typically working three days in the office and two at home each week.
Stanford University (Nicholas Bloom) · 2025 · Global Survey of Working Arrangements (G-SWA), 16,000+ college graduates across 40 countries, Nov 2024–Feb 2025 · source
Across 40 countries, employees worked from home an average of 1.27 days per week in the 2024/2025 survey wave, down from 1.6 days in 2022.
Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (Bloom, Davis et al.) · 2025 · Global Survey of Working Arrangements (G-SWA), balanced panel of 22 countries surveyed in all three waves · source
27% of U.S. workers are currently in a hybrid format and 11% are fully remote, while 62% work full-time in-office.
Owl Labs · 2024 · Owl Labs 8th Annual State of Hybrid Work report; survey of 2,000 U.S. full-time employees (part of 8,000 globally across US/UK/France/Germany, fielded May 2024 by Vitreous World) · source
58% of employed Americans — about 92 million people — have the option to work from home at least one day a week.
McKinsey & Company (American Opportunity Survey, with Ipsos) · 2022 · McKinsey American Opportunity Survey spring 2022; online poll of 25,062 U.S. adults aged 18+ · source
Across more than 305,000 employees surveyed globally over two years, 86% stated they work in more than one location, while just 9% worked only in the office.
Leesman · 2024 · Leesman database, 305,713 post-pandemic office experience responses (Q3 2021–Q2 2023) · source
Section 02
The Kastle Occupancy Barometer reported a 10-city U.S. national average office occupancy of 56.4% of the pre-pandemic baseline.
Kastle Systems · 2026 · Weekly Back to Work Barometer, week of November 3–4, 2026; anonymized keycard entries from 300,000+ users in 10 major metros vs Feb 2020 baseline · source
National average occupancy in Class A+ office buildings was 77.1%, about 20 percentage points above the 10-city all-class average.
Kastle Systems · 2026 · Kastle Occupancy Barometer weekly report, November 2026; Class A+ buildings = 2.3% of tracked buildings · source
Wednesday is the peak office day nationally, reaching 65.3% occupancy in the November 2026 weekly report.
Kastle Systems · 2026 · Kastle Occupancy Barometer; Wednesday was the peak day in eight of ten tracked cities · source
Three days remains the most popular number of in-office days for U.S. hybrid workers, with 41% going in three days, though only 33% said this matches their preference.
Owl Labs · 2024 · Owl Labs State of Hybrid Work 2024, survey of 2,000 U.S. full-time employees · source
44% of workers admit to 'coffee badging' (showing up briefly to badge in, then leaving), and 70% of them have been caught by their employers.
Owl Labs · 2024 · Owl Labs State of Hybrid Work 2024; practice first popularized by the 2023 report · source
Only 44% of U.S. workers said they would comply with a return-to-office policy requiring fully on-site work; the rest said they would quit or start looking for a new job.
Stanford University (Survey of Working Arrangements and Attitudes) · 2024 · SWAA December 2024 results, U.S. worker survey; reported in Stanford News, March 2025 · source
Nearly two-thirds of hybrid workers (61%) have felt pressured by their employers to go into the office over the past three years — nearly 4x the rate of fully remote workers (17%).
Owl Labs · 2024 · Owl Labs US Workers Pulse Survey 2024; hybrid managers (60%) nearly twice as likely as non-managers (32%) to feel the pressure · source
The percentage of hybrid employees who say their schedule is 'entirely up to me' declined from 37% in 2024 to 34% in 2025; schedules are now split 34% self-determined, 35% manager/team-decided, 31% employer-decided.
Gallup · 2025 · Gallup Q2 2025 survey of U.S. remote-capable hybrid employees · source
Nearly a third of hybrid workers (32%) are in the office about four days a week, but only 14% would prefer to be.
Owl Labs · 2024 · Owl Labs State of Hybrid Work 2024 press summary of the full report · source
Businesses expect employees to work from home one day per week on average over the next five years, based on surveys of more than 150,000 American firms.
Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (Barrero, Bloom, Davis) · 2025 · U.S. Census Business Trends and Outlook Survey (BTOS), Nov 2024–Jan 2025; firm-average WFH ranges from 2.8 days/week (Information) to 0.1 (Accommodation & Food Services) · source
Section 03
Asked in November 2025, 61% of U.S. remote-capable employees prefer a hybrid work location, 33% prefer exclusively remote, and just 6% prefer on-site.
Gallup · 2025 · Gallup preference question of U.S. remote-capable employees, Nov 2025; hybrid is the stated preference of about six in ten · source
When offered the chance to work flexibly, 87% of workers take it, spending an average of three days a week working from home.
McKinsey & Company (American Opportunity Survey) · 2022 · McKinsey AOS spring 2022, n=13,896 employed respondents with remote-work questions · source
Although 58% of employed respondents can work from home at least part of the time, 65% say they would be willing to do so all of the time.
McKinsey & Company (American Opportunity Survey) · 2022 · McKinsey AOS spring 2022; preference for flexibility cuts across gender, ethnicity, age, education and income levels · source
40% of workers would look for a new job that offered more flexibility if they could no longer work hybrid or remote, and 22% expect a pay increase in compensation.
Owl Labs · 2024 · Owl Labs State of Hybrid Work 2024, survey of 2,000 U.S. full-time employees · source
90% of workers (nine in ten) consider flexible work options important when looking for a job (BCG 2023).
Boston Consulting Group · 2023 · BCG 'What the Flex?!' surveys of 1,500+ global office-based workers, March–May 2023 · source
Employees dissatisfied with their work model are more than 2.5× as likely to consider leaving their organization in the next year (BCG 2023).
Boston Consulting Group · 2023 · BCG global office-based worker survey 2023 · source
Roughly 90% of surveyed women, caregivers, LGBTQ+ employees, and people with disabilities consider flexible work options important in staying in or leaving a job (BCG 2023).
Boston Consulting Group · 2023 · BCG global office-based worker survey 2023 · source
83% of knowledge workers do not want to return to five days a week in a physical office: 63% favor hybrid, 20% want fully remote, and only 17% want full-time office work.
Slack (Future Forum Remote Employee Experience Index) · 2021 · Future Forum Pulse Q4 survey, 9,032 knowledge workers in US/UK/France/Germany/Japan/Australia, Nov 25–Dec 30, 2020 · source
The average daily commute time savings when working from home is 72 minutes across 27 countries, ranging from 55 minutes in the U.S. to 102 minutes in China.
National Bureau of Economic Research (Aksoy, Barrero, Bloom, Davis, Dolls, Zarate) · 2023 · NBER Working Paper 30866, Global Survey of Working Arrangements data from 27 countries; workers allocate 40% of time savings to jobs and 11% to caregiving · source
Hybrid workers say they spend an average of $42 more per day when they work from the office versus remotely; the average daily cost of going to the office is $61, a 20% increase from 2023.
Owl Labs · 2024 · Owl Labs State of Hybrid Work 2024; $61/day figure per the report's press summary · source
Section 04
73% of employees say they need a better reason to go into the office than just company expectations; 84% would be motivated by socializing with co-workers and 85% by rebuilding team bonds.
Microsoft (2022 Work Trend Index Pulse) · 2022 · Edelman DXI survey of 20,006 knowledge workers in 11 countries, Jul 7–Aug 2, 2022 · source
The number of meetings per week increased by 153% globally for the average Microsoft Teams user since the start of the pandemic, and overlapping (double-booked) meetings increased 46% per person in one year.
Microsoft (2022 Work Trend Index Pulse) · 2022 · Microsoft 365 productivity signals analysis, published Sept 2022 · source
In an average week, 42% of meeting participants multitask by actively sending emails or pings during meetings.
Microsoft (2022 Work Trend Index Pulse) · 2022 · Microsoft 365 telemetry; excludes passive multitasking like reading incoming mail · source
43% of remote workers do not feel included in meetings, while only 27% of leaders say their company has developed hybrid meeting etiquette to ensure everyone is included.
Microsoft (2022 Work Trend Index Annual Report) · 2022 · Microsoft Work Trend Index 2022, survey of 31,000 people in 31 countries · source
43% of leaders say relationship-building is the greatest challenge of having employees work in a hybrid or remote environment.
Microsoft (2022 Work Trend Index Annual Report) · 2022 · Microsoft Work Trend Index 2022, survey of 31,000 people in 31 countries · source
Globally, 30% of exclusively remote employees are engaged at work, versus 25% of hybrid, 24% of on-site remote-capable, and 17% of on-site non-remote-capable employees.
Gallup (State of the Global Workplace 2026) · 2026 · Gallup World Poll 2025 data (141,444 employed respondents across 160+ countries) plus U.S. web survey; engagement by work location · source
The average home working experience score (H-Lmi 77.8) is nearly ten points higher than the average office experience score (Lmi 67.9), so the average home still supports knowledge workers better than the average office.
Leesman · 2024 · Leesman database: post-pandemic N=305,713 (Q3 2021–Q2 2023) vs pre-pandemic N=387,414; Lmi 0–100 scale · source
Managers in the Trip.com hybrid RCT revised their view of hybrid's effect on productivity from a perceived -2.6% on average before the experiment to a perceived +1.0% after it.
Nature (Bloom, Han & Liang) · 2024 · Randomized controlled trial of 1,612 employees at a Chinese technology company, 2021–2022; 395 managers surveyed · source
Over half of workers say meeting new people (55%), mentoring (51%), and team meetings (49%) are better suited to the office, supporting task-based hybrid scheduling.
Owl Labs · 2024 · Owl Labs State of Hybrid Work 2024 task-based hybrid work section · source
46% of knowledge workers agree their company or team 'has made deliberate changes to how we collaborate since working remotely' (Slack Future Forum, 2021).
Slack (Future Forum Remote Employee Experience Index) · 2021 · Future Forum Pulse Q4, 9,032 knowledge workers in six countries; belonging index flipped from -5.0 to +1.1 QoQ · source
Section 05
87% of employees report they are productive at work, but 85% of leaders say the shift to hybrid work has made it challenging to have confidence employees are being productive — 'productivity paranoia.'
Microsoft (2022 Work Trend Index Pulse) · 2022 · Edelman DXI survey of 20,006 knowledge workers in 11 countries, Jul–Aug 2022 · source
Only 12% of leaders say they have full confidence their team is productive, versus 87% of employees who report being productive.
Microsoft (2022 Work Trend Index Pulse) · 2022 · Same survey; the starkest expression of the productivity-paranoia gap · source
50% of business leaders said their companies were planning a return to full-time in-person work in the year ahead (Microsoft 2022 Work Trend Index).
Microsoft (2022 Work Trend Index Annual Report) · 2022 · Microsoft Work Trend Index 2022, survey of 31,000 people in 31 countries · source
54% of managers say leadership at their company is out of touch with employee expectations, and 74% of managers say they don't have the influence or resources to drive change for their teams.
Microsoft (2022 Work Trend Index Annual Report) · 2022 · Microsoft Work Trend Index 2022; managers described as 'wedged' between leadership and employees · source
Only 28% of business leaders have created team agreements to define why and when to go to the office in a hybrid model.
Microsoft (2022 Work Trend Index Annual Report) · 2022 · Microsoft Work Trend Index 2022 annual report appendix · source
Only 43% of employees can confidently say their company solicits employee feedback at least once a year — meaning 57% of companies may rarely, if ever, ask about the employee experience.
Microsoft (2022 Work Trend Index Pulse) · 2022 · Microsoft Work Trend Index Pulse, Sept 2022 · source
Compared with in-person managers, hybrid managers are more likely to struggle to trust employees to do their best work (49% vs. 36%) and report less visibility into their employees' work (54% vs. 38%).
Microsoft (2022 Work Trend Index Pulse) · 2022 · Microsoft Work Trend Index Pulse, Sept 2022 · source
62% of employees do not have a say in their work-model policy; where the company decides, 24% are unhappy with the policy, dropping to 14% if the manager decides and 6% if the team decides.
Boston Consulting Group · 2023 · BCG 'What the Flex?!' surveys of 1,500+ global office-based workers, March–May 2023 · source
46% of workers said their company added or increased use of employee productivity or activity monitoring software in the past year, and 86% believe it is legal for employers to use such tools.
Owl Labs · 2024 · Owl Labs State of Hybrid Work 2024 key finding · source
92% of employees rank having an 'MVP manager' as the most important factor in their work lives, just two percentage points behind compensation (94%).
Owl Labs · 2024 · Owl Labs State of Hybrid Work 2024 press summary · source
In a six-month randomized trial, a hybrid schedule (two days/week at home) reduced employee quit rates by one-third (7.2% to 4.8%) with no measurable damage to performance reviews, promotions, or lines of code written.
Nature (Bloom, Han & Liang) · 2024 · RCT of 1,612 graduate employees at Trip.com (China), 2021–2022; Nature 630, 920–925; biggest effect for non-managers, women, and long commutes · source
Section 06
The overall U.S. office vacancy rate remained at a record 18.8% in Q4 2025, the first year-over-year decline in vacancy in over five years.
CBRE Research (CBRE Econometric Advisors) · 2025 · CBRE U.S. Office Figures Q4 2025; helped by completions of just 2.4M sq ft, the lowest quarterly level since 2012 · source
2025 was the first year that U.S. office inventory removals (demolitions and conversions) outpaced new completions since CBRE began tracking the market in 1988.
CBRE Research · 2026 · CBRE U.S. Real Estate Market Outlook 2026, Office chapter · source
23.3 million sq. ft. of U.S. office space is on track for conversion (12.8M) or demolition (10.5M) in 2025, far outpacing the 12.7 million sq. ft. of expected new office supply.
CBRE Research · 2025 · CBRE brief, June 3, 2025; 58 tracked markets · source
The U.S. office conversion pipeline reached 81 million sq. ft. of planned and underway projects across 44 markets as of May 2025, accounting for 1.9% of total U.S. office inventory.
CBRE Research · 2025 · CBRE brief, June 3, 2025; up from 71M sq ft six months earlier · source
Just over 70% of planned and active U.S. office conversion projects by square footage are to multifamily units (CBRE, May 2025).
CBRE Research · 2025 · CBRE brief, June 3, 2025 · source
The overall multifamily vacancy rate was 4.8% in Q1 2025 versus 19% for office, and average multifamily rents climbed 21.3% since 2020 compared with just 1.4% for office.
CBRE Research · 2025 · CBRE brief, June 3, 2025; drivers of office-to-residential conversion · source
Office attendance remains roughly 30% lower than it was before the pandemic, with the deepest drops in knowledge-economy metros like London, New York and San Francisco.
McKinsey Global Institute · 2023 · McKinsey Global Institute research 'Empty spaces and hybrid places' (July 2023), cited in the flexible-work article · source
Half of workers (50%) believe their employer is requiring them to work from the office to fill empty real estate.
Owl Labs · 2024 · Owl Labs State of Hybrid Work 2024, 'The employee landscape' section · source
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The primary sources behind this report. We link to the page where each figure appears.
| 01 | Gallup | Gallup Panel web survey of U.S. full-time/part-time employees with remote-capable jobs; hybrid = working remotely 10% to <100% of the time | View source → |
| 02 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (Barrero, Bloom, Davis) | NBER working paper 'Why Working from Home Will Stick'; Survey of Working Arrangements and Attitudes (SWAA) cross-checked with American Time Use Survey (2019 rate 7.2%) | View source → |
| 03 | Stanford University (Nicholas Bloom) | Global Survey of Working Arrangements (G-SWA), 16,000+ college graduates across 40 countries, Nov 2024–Feb 2025 | View source → |
| 04 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (Bloom, Davis et al.) | Global Survey of Working Arrangements (G-SWA), balanced panel of 22 countries surveyed in all three waves | View source → |
| 05 | Owl Labs | Owl Labs 8th Annual State of Hybrid Work report; survey of 2,000 U.S. full-time employees (part of 8,000 globally across US/UK/France/Germany, fielded May 2024 by Vitreous World) | View source → |
| 06 | McKinsey & Company (American Opportunity Survey, with Ipsos) | McKinsey American Opportunity Survey spring 2022; online poll of 25,062 U.S. adults aged 18+ | View source → |
| 07 | Leesman | Leesman database, 305,713 post-pandemic office experience responses (Q3 2021–Q2 2023) | View source → |
| 08 | Kastle Systems | Weekly Back to Work Barometer, week of November 3–4, 2026; anonymized keycard entries from 300,000+ users in 10 major metros vs Feb 2020 baseline | View source → |
| 09 | Stanford University (Survey of Working Arrangements and Attitudes) | SWAA December 2024 results, U.S. worker survey; reported in Stanford News, March 2025 | View source → |
| 10 | McKinsey & Company (American Opportunity Survey) | McKinsey AOS spring 2022, n=13,896 employed respondents with remote-work questions | View source → |
| 11 | Boston Consulting Group | BCG 'What the Flex?!' surveys of 1,500+ global office-based workers, March–May 2023 | View source → |
| 12 | Slack (Future Forum Remote Employee Experience Index) | Future Forum Pulse Q4 survey, 9,032 knowledge workers in US/UK/France/Germany/Japan/Australia, Nov 25–Dec 30, 2020 | View source → |
| 13 | National Bureau of Economic Research (Aksoy, Barrero, Bloom, Davis, Dolls, Zarate) | NBER Working Paper 30866, Global Survey of Working Arrangements data from 27 countries; workers allocate 40% of time savings to jobs and 11% to caregiving | View source → |
| 14 | Microsoft (2022 Work Trend Index Pulse) | Edelman DXI survey of 20,006 knowledge workers in 11 countries, Jul 7–Aug 2, 2022 | View source → |
| 15 | Microsoft (2022 Work Trend Index Annual Report) | Microsoft Work Trend Index 2022, survey of 31,000 people in 31 countries | View source → |
| 16 | Gallup (State of the Global Workplace 2026) | Gallup World Poll 2025 data (141,444 employed respondents across 160+ countries) plus U.S. web survey; engagement by work location | View source → |
| 17 | Nature (Bloom, Han & Liang) | Randomized controlled trial of 1,612 employees at a Chinese technology company, 2021–2022; 395 managers surveyed | View source → |
| 18 | CBRE Research (CBRE Econometric Advisors) | CBRE U.S. Office Figures Q4 2025; helped by completions of just 2.4M sq ft, the lowest quarterly level since 2012 | View source → |
| 19 | CBRE Research | CBRE U.S. Real Estate Market Outlook 2026, Office chapter | View source → |
| 20 | McKinsey Global Institute | McKinsey Global Institute research 'Empty spaces and hybrid places' (July 2023), cited in the flexible-work article | View source → |
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