Getting a remote job is not so difficult, but it's different from getting a regular job. Some hiring platforms might be overcrowded. But if you're patient and if you're willing to boost your skills regularly, you'll get your turn to shine.

Various measures show the number of remote job postings is decreasing. The share of job postings on Indeed advertising remote or hybrid work options fell from a peak of 10.3 percent in February 2022 to 8.3 percent in December 2023.

Remote work opportunities have fluctuated since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic but FlexJobs has seen a slight uptick in the companies actively recruiting for work-from-anywhere positions.

A remote workforce definition refers to employees in an organization who typically perform their responsibilities off-site from a different location than the traditional office. A company can be a remote-only company, meaning all its employees work from different locations outside of the office.