A shift away from fully-in-office jobs continued over the last year, and the trend may well continue, based on research revealing that the large majority of recently formed companies are adopting flexible workweeks.
According to the latest Flex Index by Scoop, which canvasses approximately 7,500 companies quarterly, the percentage of companies requiring employees to work in the office at all times dropped from 49% at the start of 2023 to 38% in the fourth quarter.
The study found that 93% of companies founded since 2010 offered workplace flexibility in the form of either a fully remote or hybrid schedule for employees, compared with 63% of companies founded before 1980.
That trend around new companies led the authors to predict that in the coming years, the percentage of U.S. companies using a fully-in-office model could dip below 15%. See more findings.