Upwork’s prediction proved accurate: as of 2025, approximately 32.6 million Americans representing 22% of the workforce now work remotely. According to Gallup data, among those with remote-capable jobs, 52% work in hybrid arrangements, 27% work fully remote, and 21% remain exclusively in-office
So maybe ‘almost no one’ is slightly strong phrasing, but I guess congrats to the top 5% most pampered and privileged workers in the US at least, who actually fully work remote.
If the ‘Almost Nobodies’ here would agree to submit the zipcode that they grew up in, well, I’m reasonably confident it’ll be one that’s historically had a significantly higher median income than those near it.
Oh also submit your age. I would expect that those in this top 5% to be a distribution centered around… well basically the average US home buyer age, 59.
Hi. Much like passerby, I am also “Almost Nobody”. I haven’t stepped foot in the office since 2014, and I have travelled extensively during that time. At one point all of my clients were in NA so my wife and I would travel in our RV to somewhere in the same timezone and then bum around different lakes and mountains. When the client-base trended to EU we moved to switzerland with the intent of doing the same thing there, but covid forced us to stay in one country for most of our time there.
Don’t kid yourself - There are many of us. We just don’t all have the same experience so giving advice on how to get there is generally a waste of our time.
100% remote jobs are basically only possible to obtain for a small number of boomers, older gen x.
There’s no path to it now, if you go into the sources I listed further, latest figure was only 11% of jobs listings that indicate they’re remote of any kind are 100% remote.
The corpos want less and less 100% remote jobs, and they’re nearly all for highly experienced people.
Most job listings that list any kind of remote work are actually just lying about that if you read the entire description.
Its an illusion, for anyone under roughly 40.
Even the privileged boomers that replied to me indicated they have no useful advice to give to a younger person.
“Lottery winners, how did you win the lottery and what advice can you give?”
This whole idea is basically a myth that pretty much doesn’t actually exist in practice.
Especially now, with jet fuel costs soaring.
Almost nobody is 100% remote.
You may find an expert niche position where you travel often, but basically no one has a 100% remote job.
Unless you want to argue that being an overseas landlord who manages things from your overseas home counts as a ‘100% remote’ job.
EDIT:
Since some almost nobodies have showed up, I guess I need to show my work.
www.forbes.com/advisor/business/remote-work-statistics
www.apollotechnical.com/statistics-on-remote-workers/
32.6 * 0.27 = ~8.8 million.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNU01000000
Total US Labor Force = ~169.5 million.
8.8/169.5 = ~5.2%
So maybe ‘almost no one’ is slightly strong phrasing, but I guess congrats to the top 5% most pampered and privileged workers in the US at least, who actually fully work remote.
If the ‘Almost Nobodies’ here would agree to submit the zipcode that they grew up in, well, I’m reasonably confident it’ll be one that’s historically had a significantly higher median income than those near it.
Oh also submit your age. I would expect that those in this top 5% to be a distribution centered around… well basically the average US home buyer age, 59.
https://fortune.com/2025/11/13/average-homebuyer-59-years-old-senior-citizen-housing-market-affordability/
(Yes I realize that’s an unreasonable ask in terms of privacy, but it would make for an interesting study)
((I guess lemmy is surprised to discover its own user base is an example of selection bias))
Hi. Much like passerby, I am also “Almost Nobody”. I haven’t stepped foot in the office since 2014, and I have travelled extensively during that time. At one point all of my clients were in NA so my wife and I would travel in our RV to somewhere in the same timezone and then bum around different lakes and mountains. When the client-base trended to EU we moved to switzerland with the intent of doing the same thing there, but covid forced us to stay in one country for most of our time there.
Don’t kid yourself - There are many of us. We just don’t all have the same experience so giving advice on how to get there is generally a waste of our time.
Hi, my name is ‘almost nobody’, and funny enough, that’s the name of every coworker in my company.
I can honestly say I have never even seen my company’s office. At best like half of a few offices and most of a conference room a couple of times.
Yes it’s rare but it exists and I think that was the point of OP, looking for a way to break into it somehow
And my point is that you basically can’t.
100% remote jobs are basically only possible to obtain for a small number of boomers, older gen x.
There’s no path to it now, if you go into the sources I listed further, latest figure was only 11% of jobs listings that indicate they’re remote of any kind are 100% remote.
The corpos want less and less 100% remote jobs, and they’re nearly all for highly experienced people.
Most job listings that list any kind of remote work are actually just lying about that if you read the entire description.
Its an illusion, for anyone under roughly 40.
Even the privileged boomers that replied to me indicated they have no useful advice to give to a younger person.
If you said it’s really difficult and unlikely, ok. But people are telling you that they have these jobs and you also admit they exist.