Canada Remote Work Statistics and Trends for 2025
Employers facing hiring challenges in today’s labour market may want to consider offering flexible work arrangements. If they already do, stepping up their efforts to promote that fact could help them attract top talent.
Research from Robert Half found that 38 per cent of professionals are planning to look for a new role in the first half of 2025, or already have a search in progress, citing the desire for more flexibility at work as a top motivator for their job hunting. Nearly half (49 per cent) of Canadian job seekers would like a hybrid role, one quarter (26 per cent) are interested in a fully remote position, and only 24 per cent prefer a fully in-office position.
The benefits of hiring remote and hybrid workers are clear for employers. In addition to accessing a wider talent pool and potentially attracting more skilled applicants for jobs, offering flexible work can help boost retention. Two-thirds (66 per cent) of Canadian workers cite flexibility in when and where they work as a top influence on their job satisfaction and decision to stay with an employer.
Hybrid and remote work trends by profession
We examined industries that Robert Half supports with our talent solutions to determine which ones have the highest rates of new hybrid and remote jobs. Below is an overview of our findings based on a Robert Half analysis of over 22,000 new Canadian job postings from Q4 2024.
Q4 2024 Canadian Job Postings
The chart above shows findings from Robert Half’s analysis of Canadian job postings in Q4 2024, with a breakout of fully in-office, hybrid and fully remote jobs. Our analysis suggests that many employers continue to see value in offering their employees flexible work options, like the ability to work from home, either some or all of the time. In-office arrangements continue to be the majority workplace arrangement among new jobs, although this varies by professional field.
The industries in focus in our Q4 2024 analysis were finance and accounting, technology, marketing and creative, legal, administrative and customer support, and human resources. Some key findings include the following:
Marketing and creative employers had the most job postings for fully remote jobs (20 per cent), while legal employers had the least (three per cent)
Employers in the administrative and customer support field had the most job postings for fully in-office jobs—83 per cent—and the least for hybrid (12 per cent)
Technology employers had the most job postings for hybrid roles (33 per cent), with marketing and creative and human resources in a close second (32 per cent each)
Source: Robert Half analysis of over 22,000 new Canadian job postings from Q4 2024 provided by TalentNeuron. 2025 Robert Half Canada.
Hybrid and remote work arrangements are stabilizing
One of the most significant remote work trends we have been tracking in our research is the rise in hybrid jobs since Q1 2023, nearly tripling in prevalence. Additionally, employers are creating more hybrid jobs compared to the number of remote positions. As of Q4 2024, just over one quarter (26 per cent) of new jobs posted online are for hybrid roles, more than twice the number of fully remote ones (11 per cent). Over the last year, we have observed that job postings for both hybrid and remote positions are stabilizing, suggesting that flexible work arrangements will continue to be offered in 2025 at levels consistent with 2024.
Fully on-site roles have dropped significantly since Q1 2023. We found that new, fully in-office job postings declined from 84 per cent to 69 per cent during 2023. And since the start of 2024, the rate of new, fully in-office jobs has hovered between 61 per cent and 63 per cent. In 2025, we’ll be tracking whether this is the new normal or if the rate of on-site jobs continue to decline.
Remote and Hybrid Jobs Over Time
The chart above illustrates the prevalence of both fully remote and hybrid jobs compared with the number of fully in-office jobs in Canada from Q3 2023 to Q4 2024.
The growth in hybrid job postings increased slightly, from 22 per cent in Q3 2023 to 26 per cent of new jobs by the end of 2024, down from a high of 28 per cent of new jobs in Q3 2024. Fully remote jobs have also increased slightly over the last two years, from nine per cent in Q3 2023 to 11 per cent in Q4 2024, down from a high of 12 per cent in Q2 2024.
Overall, the prevalence of both hybrid and remote job postings has stabilized across 2024, with little fluctuation across the four quarters in 2024. Fully in-office job postings declined from 69 per cent to 63 per cent from Q3 2023 to the end of 2024, solidifying that flexible work arrangements are not decreasing as return-to-office mandates continue to make news headlines.
Robert Half’s analysis suggests many employers continue to see value in offering their employees flexible work options, like hybrid work.
Source: Robert Half analysis of over 200,000 new Canadian job positions provided by TalentNeuron. 2025 Robert Half Canada.
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Methodology
Surveys were developed by Robert Half and conducted by independent research firms. Respondents included executives from small (1-99 employees), medium (100-999 employees), and large or enterprise (1,000+ employees) businesses in private, publicly listed and public sector organizations across Canada.
Job postings provided by TalentNeuron and categorized into more than 350 job titles within Robert Half’s 2025 Salary Guide using a proprietary mapping methodology that employs state-of-the-art large language models. This dataset includes roles across the finance and accounting, technology, marketing and creative, legal, administrative and customer support, and human resources professions.
