🇺🇸 Federal workers lock down hybrid

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NEED TO KNOW

Remote work headlines:

• What were 2024’s biggest remote work trends? The West has more WFH than the South, the insurance industry has adopted remote work broadly, “structured hybrid” grows in popularity, and more.

• Federal employees in the Social Security Administration struck a deal that locks in their existing hybrid work schedule through 2029, countering the expected RTO push by Trump’s DOGE effort.

• Expect fewer parents to work in federal government roles if flexible work arrangements are taken away in DC.

• Lawyers still want remote work, but it seems unlikely that current hybrid schedules will change meaningfully anytime soon.

• Banks are bringing employees back to the office to avoid regulatory home office inspections.

• Return-to-office mandates are making it more difficult for companies to hire quality talent.

• Leaders expect return-to-office policies will die out in 2025. (Fingers crossed!)

TECH TOOLS

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• What should you share publicly when you’re applying to jobs? This recruiting professional shares her take.

• Job postings for recruiters have been increasing lately — which might be reason to believe hiring will finally pick up meaningfully in 2025.

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STATS

27%

That’s the percentage of employees worldwide that worked fully or mostly remotely in 2023, according to research published by Statista. This is up from 13% in 2020, before the pandemic impacted office attendance.

It’s always fun to see these macro-level statistics that show how prominent remote work has become. And we still have a lot of growth left to go, once more innovative leaders are promoted into management roles, shaping modern workplace policies based on their positive remote experiences.

JOBS, JOBS, JOBS

Bonnie Dilber is the best

If you’re not familiar with her, Bonnie is a recruiter at remote-first company Zapier, who also offers tons of incredible career advice and resources.

Here’s a link to her site, where you can access her list of job boards for free (we’re featured; thanks Bonnie!) and sign up for her newsletter as well. She also has tons of other ways to help job seekers and she has a great presence across social media.

🤝 HELPFUL LINKS

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