Data from 50,000 of the largest employers in the US & Canada indicates where remote working might be heading — and busted researchers’ predictions.
The shift to remote and hybrid work is something that has become common for many office workers. For particularly in-demand skilled workers like developers it’s even become a key demand and some are walking away from jobs that don’t give them the freedom to work where they choose. Questions remain, however: Will this remote working bubble burst? And will offices return to their pre-pandemic capacity? According to data from 50,000 of the US and Canada’s largest employers, remote working is here for the long haul. The Q1 2022 Quarterly Remote Work Report by careers platform Ladders found that a quarter (24%) of all professional jobs in the US and Canada are now permanent remote roles, with the number of roles being advertised as non-office based rising sharply even from the final quarter of 2021. By Q4 of 2021, three million additional news made the transition to permanently remote, Ladders found: an abrupt increase that researchers said «may indicate permanent change in the US.» SEE: The future of work: How everything changed and what’s coming next The sharp increase in remote roles was higher than researchers had predicted.
