Trends in Employees Doing Remote Work

• A global survey from 2018 found that the majority of companies allow partial or fully remote work. While 44% of companies don't allow remote work, 16% of companies are fully remote, while 40% of companies allow for hybrid options (fully remote, fully in-office, or alternating.)
• As of 2019, 33% of employers report that 1 to 25% of their employees work remotely, while 30% report that 100% are working remotely.
• Approximately 1.87 billion or 42.5% of the global workforce will be "mobile", or remote by 2022.
• Some experts estimate that by 2025, around 70% of the global workforce will work remotely five days a week. Others estimate that by 2025, 50% of the workforce will work at least partly remotely.

Spending on Remote Internal Communications

• There appears to be an upward trend in spending on internal communications. In a global survey, 75% of respondents reported that they were spending more on employee engagement than they were two years ago.
• A survey of businesses from the US and the UK report that 62% of their internal communications budget goes to digital communications spending.
• A global study found that most companies (34%) said their internal communications budget was less than $10,000 per year. But bigger companies with more than 500 employees had an internal communications budget of $185,000 per year, excluding salaries.

Summary of Findings:

• By 2022, 42.5% of the global workforce will be remote, and by 2025 this number will jump to 50% to 70%.
• There appears to be an upward trend of spending in internal communications, specifically digital communication spend.
• We did not have enough time to find or triangulate the Total Addressable Market (TAM) globally for remote work by 2025.