6.9%: Jobs posting on Indeed in Feb. 2021 that are for remote positions, vs 2.9% in Jan. 2020
79%: Global survey respondents who said “the ability to live anywhere” would be important to them
2.5: Additional hours per week people are working on average during the pandemic
61%: Corporate leaders (more likely to be men who worked from home in executive jobs) say they’re “thriving” right now, according to a 2021 Microsoft survey
44%: Remote workers who say their mental health has declined in the past year
38%: People who, in an April 2020 survey, said their company had not asked them how they were doing.
Surveys show that workers prefer a hybrid work model in which they go into an office a few days per week. But Darren Murph, head of remote work culture at GitLab, suggests that small organizations consider keeping all executives out of the office “so they send the right signal that the office is not the epicenter of power. The office is not the place where you come to get promoted.”