What It Means
Hybrid work is an arrangement where an employee works some days at home and some at the employer's site, such as an office. The split is set by the employer or agreed with the team, for example Tuesday to Thursday in the office and Monday and Friday at home. In Bureau of Labor Statistics teleworkRemote workDoing your job from somewhere other than your employer's workplace, most often from home, for some or all of the workweek. See more data, the closest match is people who teleworked some of their hours in the survey week, as opposed to all of them.
Try It: Plan Your Office Days Around Your Team
Tick the days you're in the office and the days your team is in. Example schedules to start.
You share at least two office days with your team, which leaves room for meetings in person.
Only one shared office day. Anything that needs the whole team in one room has to land on it.
You and your team are never in the office on the same day.
How People Say It at Work
- "We're hybrid, in the office Tuesday to Thursday."
- "Is this role hybrid or fully remote?"
- "Let's meet on an office day so we're all in the room."
The Breakdown
Worked example. One person's week under a Tuesday to Thursday office schedule, with a team that comes in Monday to Wednesday (example schedules):
| Day | You | Your team |
|---|---|---|
| Monday | Home | Office |
| Tuesday | Office | Office |
| Wednesday | Office | Office |
| Thursday | Office | Home |
| Friday | Home | Home |
You're in the office three days and share two of them with your team. At 35 minutes each way, the three office days add 3.5 hours of commuting a week.
What the result means. The overlap count is the one to watch. Hybrid schedules that don't line up can leave people commuting in to sit on video calls with teammates at home, so it's worth agreeing on shared office days with the people you work with most.
How many people work this way, per BLS
| Group, April 2025 | Teleworked some of their hours | Teleworked all of their hours |
|---|---|---|
| Private industry workers | 11.0% | 9.8% |
| Federal government workers | 8.5% | 9.7% |
Across everyone at work, BLS counted 35.5 million people, or 22.9%, who teleworked or worked at home for pay in the first quarter of 2024, up from 19.6% a year earlier.
Good to Know
Get the hybrid arrangement in writing: which days you're expected in, whether they can change, and who provides equipment for home days. BLS measures telework through the monthly Current Population Survey, which added telework questions in October 2022, so its telework figures start from that month.
FAQ
What does hybrid work mean?
It's a schedule that splits the working week between home and the employer's site, such as three days in the office and two at home. The exact days are set by the employer or agreed with the team.
How many people work hybrid?
BLS reports telework rather than hybrid work, and its closest measure is people who teleworked some of their hours. In April 2025 that was 11.0% of private industry workers, while another 9.8% teleworked all of their hours.
What's the difference between hybrid and remote work?
A remote worker does all their work away from the employer's site, while a hybrid worker splits the week between home and the site. In BLS data, that's the difference between teleworking all of your hours and some of them.
Do It in Buhata
Team Space and Calendar
Add each person's office days as weekly repeating tasks in your Team Space in Buhata, so the Calendar shows which days the team overlaps.
Open BuhataRelated Terms and Categories
- Remote work
Doing your job from somewhere other than your employer's workplace, most often from home, for some or all of the workweek.
- Return to office
An employer policy that calls staff who worked remotely back to the workplace for some or all of the week, often called an RTO mandate.
- Core hours
The fixed part of the workday when everyone on a flexible schedule must be working, with flexible start and finish times on either side.
- Coffee badging
Slang for going into the office only briefly, long enough to be seen and have a coffee, then leaving to work elsewhere, usually at home.
- Work-life balance
How your time and energy divide between paid work and the rest of your life, such as family, rest, health and interests.
Sources
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, The Economics Daily, "Telework rate down for federal government workers in April 2025"; U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, "Telework or work at home for pay"; U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Beyond the Numbers, "Telework trends"
- www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2025/telework-rate-down-for-federal-government-workers-in-april-2025.htm
- www.bls.gov/cps/telework.htm
- www.bls.gov/opub/btn/volume-14/telework-trends.htm
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