In the wake of the pandemic — as millions of people have quit their jobs and a growing number of companies delay their return to office — remote work has continued to surge in popularity, new data from LinkedIn reveals.                                                            

According to the report, 30.2% of all applications to paid U.S. job postings on LinkedIn went to remote work opportunities in August, more than 3x the rate of remote job applications (9.8%) in August 2020, and up nearly 10-fold from January 2020, where remote jobs only made up 2.8% of applications before the Covid-19 pandemic hit the U.S.