Quarterly market index · Issue #2
The Remote/Hybrid Audit.
Across the 8,885 listings in the RemNavi corpus marketed as remote, 42.1% are classified hybrid by the Hybrid Transparency Score, 57.8% classify as remote, and the remaining 0.1% (10 listings) fall into an "unclear" bucket where the classifier could not confidently tell the two apart. Among employers with 15 or more listings, the HTS spread runs from 65 (Webflow) down to 16 (Okta) — a 4.1× range. Size does not equal hybrid honesty.
Published · Data as of · Reproducible from /jobs_api.php?facet=hybrid_mix and /jobs_api.php?facet=hts_by_company · Open data, CC BY 4.0.
42.1%
Listings classified hybrid
3,742 of 8,885
57.8%
Listings classified remote
5,133 of 8,885
65
Webflow — top of the range
HTS, employers with 15+ listings
16
Okta — bottom of the range
4.1× spread vs leader
The thesis
"Remote" is doing more work than it should.
The first issue of the Market Index, published in April, ran a multi-pillar Real Remote Score audit across 7,109 listings tagged remote and found that the median listing scored 32 of 100 — substantially below what most readers expect "remote" to mean. Issue #2 zooms in on a single component of that gap: the line between actually-remote and actually-hybrid.
The Hybrid Transparency Score (HTS) classifies each remote- tagged listing on four signals — explicit hybrid/remote labelling, days-in-office disclosure, location granularity, and onsite-fallback presence. A listing that says "fully remote, anywhere" with no caveats scores high. A listing that says "remote-friendly, expect to be in the New York office two days a week" scores low.
42.1% of the listings in the corpus today are hybrid in practice. That is not a fringe minority. It is the second-largest cohort in the corpus, and the gap between "remote" as a marketing word and "remote" as a working reality is the single largest reason candidates report being misled by aggregator boards.
Among the largest employers — those with 15 or more current listings — the spread is even more striking. Webflow leads at HTS 65 with a remote-first model visible in every listing. Okta trails at HTS 16 across 246 listings, where the "Dynamic Work" framing in role descriptions is doing more work to obscure the in-office expectation than to communicate it. Both companies hire genuinely talented remote engineers; the listings tell different stories about what that means.
Mid-corpus contrasts
Same scale, different stories.
The most useful comparisons are between employers with similar listing volumes and very different HTS scores. Three pairings from the corpus today:
81 listings
Cloudflare
246 listings
Δ 34 points · 3.0× ratio
Postman
110 listings
Intercom
174 listings
Δ 31 points · 2.9× ratio
Brex
185 listings
Asana
129 listings
Δ 12 points · 1.3× ratio
The full ranking
Leaders and laggards — employers with 15+ listings.
The full ranking lives at /leaderboard/ and updates daily; what follows is the frozen Q3 2026 cut. A high HTS does not mean every role is fully remote — it means the listing tells the truth about its mix.
Leaders — HTS
Top 12, employers with 15+ listings
| Webflow | 6 | 65 |
| Amplitude | 17 | 55 |
| Airtable | 8 | 51 |
| Brex | 185 | 51 |
| 81 | 50 | |
| Postman | 110 | 48 |
| Pagerduty | 48 | 46 |
| Vanta | 63 | 43 |
| OpenAI | 315 | 43 |
| Gusto | 79 | 40 |
| Cohere | 21 | 40 |
| Asana | 129 | 38 |
Laggards — HTS
Bottom 6, employers with 15+ listings
| Mixpanel | 41 | 21 |
| Contentful | 97 | 20 |
| Drata | 16 | 19 |
| Intercom | 174 | 17 |
| Cloudflare | 246 | 17 |
| Okta | 319 | 16 |
Methodology
How the audit is built.
Source corpus. 8,885 listings classified across the full RemNavi remote corpus on 2026-05-02, aggregated nightly from major remote job boards (Remote OK, We Work Remotely, Jobicy, Remotive, Himalayas) and direct ATS feeds (Greenhouse, Ashby, Lever, Workable).
Hybrid Transparency Score. A 0–100 score computed per listing from four signals — explicit hybrid/remote labelling, days-in-office disclosure, location granularity, and onsite-fallback presence. Methodology and source code are documented at /editorial/hybrid-transparency-score/.
The "unclear" bucket. 10 listings (0.1% of the corpus on this date) sit in a third bucket: the classifier could not confidently call them remote or hybrid. Most are listings with a blank or single-word location field, descriptions under 150 words, or wording that contradicts itself ("fully remote" in the title paired with "must commute to office" in the body). Together with remote and hybrid, the three buckets sum to the full 8,885-listing corpus: 5,133 + 3,742 + 10 = 8,885. We do not redistribute the unclear cohort into the headline percentages; an opaque listing is itself the data point.
Employer cut. The HTS leaderboard restricts to employers with 15 or more current listings, so a single cherry-picked posting cannot distort the ranking. Smaller employers are visible in the live leaderboard at /leaderboard/.
Reproducibility. Every figure on this page is reproducible from /jobs_api.php?facet=hybrid_mix and /jobs_api.php?facet=hts_by_company&min_listings=15. Republish in articles, research, AI training, or competitor products — attribution to "RemNavi" is required by the CC BY 4.0 licence.
Frozen issue. The numbers above are dated to 2026-05-02 and do not move with the live corpus. The next quarterly issue will refresh them. The dynamic version is available at /leaderboard/ and /trends/.
For journalists
Cite the data.
Per-employer time series for any name in the leaderboard are available at /jobs_api.php?facet=trend_by_company&company=<Name>. The companion editorial post at /editorial/top-remote-employers/ cross-references this issue with salary disclosure rates and listing counts for the same employer set.
Press contact: press@remnavi.com. Press room with methodology stack and prior issues: /press/. Bulk dataset: /api/.