{
  "dataset": {
    "slug": "employer-remote-policies",
    "title": "Employer remote-work policies",
    "summary": "Remote-policy, salary-transparency, geographic, and four-day-week coverage across WFH.team's published employer profiles.",
    "category": "employer_policies",
    "category_label": "Employer policies",
    "source_kind": "first_party",
    "source_name": "WFH.team Remote Company Directory",
    "source_url": "https://wfh.team/remote-policy-tracker",
    "update_frequency": "Monthly",
    "geographic_scope": "Worldwide",
    "methodology": "Releases aggregate fields present on published remote-company profiles. Coverage means a policy field has source-backed text; it is not a judgment that the policy is favorable.",
    "limitations": "Profile coverage varies by employer and public source availability. Missing fields mean unknown, not necessarily that a policy is absent.",
    "dimensions": [
      "month",
      "policy field"
    ],
    "api_url": "https://api.new.wfh.team/api/public/research/datasets/employer-remote-policies/"
  },
  "release": {
    "release_key": "2026-08",
    "revision": 4,
    "period_start": "2026-08-01",
    "period_end": "2026-08-11",
    "published_at": "2026-08-11 10:55:21.440736+00:00",
    "source_updated_at": null,
    "headline": "1,490 employers have source-backed remote-policy profiles",
    "change_summary": "The monthly tracker links 2,488 primary sources and identifies 0 employers with increasing remote hiring.",
    "sample_size": 1490,
    "revision_note": "Source data changed after initial publication.",
    "permalink": "https://wfh.team/research/datasets/employer-remote-policies/2026-08",
    "data": {
      "series": [
        {
          "key": "policy_score",
          "unit": "score",
          "label": "Average Remote Policy Index",
          "points": [
            {
              "value": 42.0,
              "period": "2026-08-01"
            }
          ]
        }
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "key": "tracked_companies",
          "unit": "count",
          "label": "Source-backed employer policies",
          "value": 1490,
          "change": null,
          "previous_value": null
        },
        {
          "key": "average_policy_score",
          "unit": "score",
          "label": "Average policy clarity score",
          "value": 42.0,
          "change": null,
          "previous_value": null
        },
        {
          "key": "salary_transparency",
          "unit": "percent",
          "label": "Average salary transparency",
          "value": 32.1,
          "change": null,
          "previous_value": null
        },
        {
          "key": "worldwide_hiring",
          "unit": "count",
          "label": "Companies hiring worldwide",
          "value": 28,
          "change": null,
          "previous_value": null
        },
        {
          "key": "primary_sources",
          "unit": "count",
          "label": "Linked primary sources",
          "value": 2488,
          "change": null,
          "previous_value": null
        }
      ],
      "breakdowns": [
        {
          "key": "classification",
          "rows": [
            {
              "key": "fully_remote",
              "count": 91,
              "label": "Fully remote",
              "percent": 6.1
            },
            {
              "key": "hybrid",
              "count": 1,
              "label": "Hybrid",
              "percent": 0.1
            },
            {
              "key": "remote_friendly",
              "count": 1080,
              "label": "Remote-friendly",
              "percent": 72.5
            },
            {
              "key": "office_first",
              "count": 0,
              "label": "Office-first",
              "percent": 0.0
            },
            {
              "key": "unknown",
              "count": 318,
              "label": "Not enough evidence",
              "percent": 21.3
            }
          ],
          "label": "Remote-work classification"
        },
        {
          "key": "trend",
          "rows": [
            {
              "key": "increasing",
              "count": 0,
              "label": "Increasing",
              "percent": 0.0
            },
            {
              "key": "decreasing",
              "count": 0,
              "label": "Decreasing",
              "percent": 0.0
            },
            {
              "key": "stable",
              "count": 0,
              "label": "Stable",
              "percent": 0.0
            },
            {
              "key": "new",
              "count": 1490,
              "label": "Newly tracked",
              "percent": 100.0
            }
          ],
          "label": "Remote hiring direction"
        },
        {
          "key": "expanding",
          "rows": [],
          "label": "Companies expanding remote hiring"
        },
        {
          "key": "clearest",
          "rows": [
            {
              "key": "rula",
              "label": "Rula",
              "value": 95,
              "salary_transparency_percent": 97.4
            },
            {
              "key": "branch",
              "label": "Branch",
              "value": 93,
              "salary_transparency_percent": 100.0
            },
            {
              "key": "pandadoc",
              "label": "PandaDoc",
              "value": 92,
              "salary_transparency_percent": 96.2
            },
            {
              "key": "tebra",
              "label": "Tebra",
              "value": 92,
              "salary_transparency_percent": 95.0
            },
            {
              "key": "tailscale",
              "label": "Tailscale",
              "value": 92,
              "salary_transparency_percent": 92.7
            },
            {
              "key": "mozilla",
              "label": "Mozilla",
              "value": 92,
              "salary_transparency_percent": 77.8
            },
            {
              "key": "vanta",
              "label": "Vanta",
              "value": 91,
              "salary_transparency_percent": 90.2
            },
            {
              "key": "zocdoc",
              "label": "Zocdoc",
              "value": 90,
              "salary_transparency_percent": 100.0
            },
            {
              "key": "coinbase",
              "label": "Coinbase",
              "value": 90,
              "salary_transparency_percent": 86.9
            },
            {
              "key": "typeform",
              "label": "Typeform",
              "value": 90,
              "salary_transparency_percent": 100.0
            },
            {
              "key": "honor",
              "label": "Honor",
              "value": 90,
              "salary_transparency_percent": 100.0
            },
            {
              "key": "leap",
              "label": "Leap",
              "value": 90,
              "salary_transparency_percent": 100.0
            },
            {
              "key": "launchdarkly",
              "label": "LaunchDarkly",
              "value": 90,
              "salary_transparency_percent": 100.0
            },
            {
              "key": "runpod",
              "label": "Runpod",
              "value": 90,
              "salary_transparency_percent": 95.7
            },
            {
              "key": "databricks",
              "label": "Databricks",
              "value": 90,
              "salary_transparency_percent": 100.0
            },
            {
              "key": "ramp",
              "label": "Ramp",
              "value": 90,
              "salary_transparency_percent": 100.0
            },
            {
              "key": "openai",
              "label": "OpenAI",
              "value": 90,
              "salary_transparency_percent": 100.0
            },
            {
              "key": "mixpanel",
              "label": "Mixpanel",
              "value": 90,
              "salary_transparency_percent": 100.0
            },
            {
              "key": "discord",
              "label": "Discord",
              "value": 90,
              "salary_transparency_percent": 100.0
            },
            {
              "key": "doximity",
              "label": "Doximity",
              "value": 90,
              "salary_transparency_percent": 100.0
            },
            {
              "key": "webflow",
              "label": "Webflow",
              "value": 89,
              "salary_transparency_percent": 81.2
            },
            {
              "key": "affirm",
              "label": "Affirm",
              "value": 89,
              "salary_transparency_percent": 96.7
            },
            {
              "key": "iterable",
              "label": "Iterable",
              "value": 88,
              "salary_transparency_percent": 91.7
            },
            {
              "key": "airbnb",
              "label": "Airbnb",
              "value": 88,
              "salary_transparency_percent": 91.7
            },
            {
              "key": "customerio",
              "label": "Customerio",
              "value": 88,
              "salary_transparency_percent": 100.0
            }
          ],
          "label": "Clearest salary and location policies"
        }
      ],
      "schema_version": 2
    }
  },
  "citation": "Source: WFH.team, Employer remote-work policies, 2026-08, revision 4 (https://wfh.team/research/datasets/employer-remote-policies/2026-08)."
}