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State of Remote Work 2018 [Data & Analysis]
This document summarizes the key findings from a survey of 1,900 remote workers around the world. The survey found that a large majority (90%) of remote workers would prefer to work remotely for the rest of their careers and encourage others to do the same (94%). The biggest benefits of remote work are flexible schedules (43%) and spending time with family (15%), while the biggest struggles are loneliness (21%), collaboration difficulties, and home distractions. Most remote workers primarily work from home (78%) and have traveled while working remotely (81%), with 43% spending 10% or less of their time traveling. A majority of remote worker respondents (70%) work remotely 100% of the time. Reported annual salaries ranged
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Explores the evolution of remote work, highlights survey data from 1,900 respondents across 90 countries, focusing on industry representation and work dynamics.
Reports high satisfaction, with 90% preferring remote work long-term and 94% encouraging others to do the same, highlighting remote work's appeal.
Identifies flexible schedules (43%) and family time (15%) as key benefits, while loneliness (21%) and communication issues (21%) are major challenges.
Shows that 55% of remote workers take under 15 vacation days yearly, with 16% having only 0-5 days, suggesting reduced work-life balance.
Details that 78% work from home, with 81% having worked outside their home city and 43% spending 10% or less of the year traveling while working.
Indicates that 70% work 100% remotely, with various company sizes employing remote staff; highlights the structure of remote work arrangements.
Presents income details, showing 28% earn below $25,000; salary ranges reflect financial diversity among remote workers.
Reiterates the Future of Work theme in remote marketing, closing with implications for ongoing changes in work structure.
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- 2. Overview To better understandhow remote work is changing we teamed up with Workfrom and Hubstaff and collected data from over 1,900 remote workers around the world to create the State of Remote Work 2018 report. The report shows us how remote workers around the world are working, the benefits and struggles of working remotely, and what changes they’re making for the future. Here’s what this report will cover…
- 3. Contents 1. How SatisfiedAre Remote Workers 2. The Benefits and Struggles of Working Remotely 3. Where Do Remote Workers Actually Work? 4. How Companies Are Thinking About Remote Work in 2018 5. How Much Remote Workers Earn
- 4. Who we surveyed Wehad 1,900 remote workers from 90 countries around the world participate in the survey that helped create this report. Most of the people we surveyed work in the software industry (26%) followed by IT and Services (20%) and Marketing (19%). Respondents primarily work on marketing (25%) and engineering (22%) teams. The majority of respondents (58%) work remotely for a company while 28% work as freelancers and 14% run their own companies.
- 5. 1. How SatisfiedAre Remote Workers
- 6. A large majorityof respondents, 90%, would prefer to work remotely for the rest of their careers. Do remote workers want to be remote for the rest of their careers?
- 7. A large majorityof respondents, 94%, encourage others to work remotely. Do remote workers encourage others to work remotely?
- 8. 2. The Benefitsand Struggles of Working Remotely
- 9. The biggest benefitto working remotely is the ability to have a flexible schedule — 43% of remote workers were in agreement about this. The second biggest benefit? Being able to spend time with family (15%). What’s the biggest benefit to working remotely?
- 10. Loneliness (21 percent), collaboratingand/or communicating (21 percent) and distractions at home (16 percent) are the biggest struggles of remote workers. What’s the biggest struggle to working remotely?
- 11. According to ourdata, 55% of remote workers take fewer than 15 days of vacation per year. The smallest range of vacation days in our survey — 0 to 5 days — is the norm for 16% of remote workers. How many vacation days do remote workers take?
- 12. 3. Where DoRemote Workers Actually Work?
- 13. For 78% ofremote workers, home is their primary place of work. The office came in as the runner-up work location with 9% of the respondents, and coworking spaces came in at 7%. Where do remote workers primarily work from?
- 14. A majority ofrespondents, 81%, have traveled outside of their home city and worked at the same time. Do remote workers ever travel outside of their home city and work at the same time?
- 15. A total of43% of respondents said they spend 10% or less of their time traveling while working remotely. What percentage of the year do remote workers who travel, travel and work at the same time?
- 16. 4. How CompaniesAre Thinking About Remote Work in 2018
- 17. A majority ofrespondents, 70%, work 100% remotely. How many remote workers are remote 100% of the time?
- 18. For workers whoaren’t 100% remote, the majority (32%) work remotely between 11-30% of their time. What percentage of time do remote workers work remotely?
- 19. Of the companieswith remote workers, 22 percent have fewer than 10 employees, 17 percent have 11-25 employees, and 15 percent have over 1,000 employees. What percentage of employees work remotely?
- 20. 5. How MuchRemote Workers Earn
- 21. The results showthat 28 percent of remote workers make less than $25,000 USD per year,18 percent make $25,001 - $50,000, and18 percent make $50,001 - $75,000. How much to remote workers make per year?
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