For more than a year, Corporate America has projected confidence that remote work was nearing its end.
Amazon ordered employees back to the office five days a week last year. Meanwhile CEOs like JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon and Tesla’s Elon Musk have repeatedly criticized work-from-home.
Yet despite the headlines, the American workplace has barely changed.
Nearly 22% of U.S. workers still worked from home at least part of the time in 2025, a percentage point less than in 2024, according to a new analysis of Census Bureau Current Population Survey data from the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.
The trend continued into 2026, with the combined rate of hybrid work and fully remote work running at 22.3% in January and 22% in February.
