Remote Work Nears Record High
Work from Home is Here to Stay
New U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data shows 34.9% of full-time workers did some of their work at home on an average workday in 2025, just below the 2023 high.
July 10, 2026
According to Bloomberg, new data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics shows remote work rebounded in 2025 despite years of return-to-office mandates. Among full-time workers who worked on an average day, 34.9%—about 32.5 million people—did at least some of that work at home, up from 33.4% in 2024 and just below the 35.0% measured in 2023.
David vs Goliath
The growth is happening in remote work despite RTO mandates from large employers like J.P. Morgan and Amazon.
Remote Work and AI provide a special advantage to smaller, founder-led companies competing with deep-pocketed conglomerates who can afford expensive leases and force people to come to lavish offices filled with perks.
The benefits of remote work are becoming more evident to both companies and workers:
- Fewer meetings
- No commute saves time and reduces energy consumption
- No rent expense
- Hire talent from anywhere
More AI, More Remote Work
With the explosion of AI, expect to see remote work trends keep rising. Remote companies using platforms like Roam keep a digital record of every meeting, chat and presence interaction which provides a context layer for AI Agents to make them more productive than their analog counterparts.