When the COVID-19 pandemic struck in 2020, the entire world went inside. Many businesses that stayed open relied on remote workers to continue their operations, and, as the pandemic subsided, many employers found that remote work was still a viable option.

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In 2025, however, it seems like the party is ending, at least for those who want to work remotely. In addition to a number of well-known companies very publicly saying that they wanted workers to return to the office — JPMorgan Chase, Starbucks and Amazon being just a few — the general marketplace appears to be shrinking for remote workers.

At least, that’s the conclusion of a recent LinkedIn survey. But is remote work really getting harder to find, and is it a trend that will continue? Here’s what the hard numbers say.

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LinkedIn’s Workforce Confidence Survey, released in March 2025, shows that remote work has been steadily declining since 2020. In October 2020, for example, 46% of employees worked remotely, while 39% were mostly onsite.

Those numbers had flipped as of February 2025, with 55% working mostly onsite while just 26% worked remotely.

Hybrid work has remained relatively constant with a slight uptick in recent years, going from 12% in October 2020 to 16% in February 2025.

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Interpreting statistics can be a tricky business. On the one hand, it seems clear from the data that the trend in remote work is decidedly downward, while more and more workers are returning to the office.

But the pandemic was a once-in-a-lifetime event, a true statistical outlier that made “normal” statistical analysis irrelevant.

While the number of remote workers has been cut almost in half over the past four to five years, it’s still extremely elevated relative to the normalcy that existed before the pandemic.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, just 6.5% of workers in the private business sector worked from home in 2019. That’s just one-fourth of the number of remote workers today. Looked at another way, there are four times as many remote workers in 2025 as there were in 2019.

While the trend in remote workers may be down, it really had nowhere to go but down after peaking in 2020.