{
  "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": "2026-11",
    "revision": 2,
    "period_start": "2026-11-01",
    "period_end": "2026-11-02",
    "published_at": "2026-11-02 12:45:48.632518+00:00",
    "source_updated_at": null,
    "headline": "1,896 employers have source-backed remote-policy profiles",
    "change_summary": "The monthly tracker links 4,676 primary sources and identifies 1 employers with increasing remote hiring.",
    "sample_size": 1896,
    "revision_note": "Source data changed after initial publication.",
    "permalink": "https://wfh.team/research/datasets/employer-remote-policies/2026-11",
    "data": {
      "series": [
        {
          "key": "policy_score",
          "unit": "score",
          "label": "Average Remote Policy Index",
          "points": [
            {
              "value": 44.0,
              "period": "2026-08-01"
            },
            {
              "value": 33.4,
              "period": "2026-09-01"
            },
            {
              "value": 34.7,
              "period": "2026-10-01"
            },
            {
              "value": 34.7,
              "period": "2026-11-01"
            }
          ]
        }
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "key": "tracked_companies",
          "unit": "count",
          "label": "Source-backed employer policies",
          "value": 1896,
          "change": null,
          "previous_value": null
        },
        {
          "key": "average_policy_score",
          "unit": "score",
          "label": "Average policy clarity score",
          "value": 34.7,
          "change": null,
          "previous_value": null
        },
        {
          "key": "salary_transparency",
          "unit": "percent",
          "label": "Average salary transparency",
          "value": 45.0,
          "change": null,
          "previous_value": null
        },
        {
          "key": "worldwide_hiring",
          "unit": "count",
          "label": "Companies hiring worldwide",
          "value": 74,
          "change": null,
          "previous_value": null
        },
        {
          "key": "primary_sources",
          "unit": "count",
          "label": "Linked primary sources",
          "value": 4676,
          "change": null,
          "previous_value": null
        }
      ],
      "breakdowns": [
        {
          "key": "classification",
          "rows": [
            {
              "key": "fully_remote",
              "count": 170,
              "label": "Fully remote",
              "percent": 9.0
            },
            {
              "key": "hybrid",
              "count": 0,
              "label": "Hybrid",
              "percent": 0.0
            },
            {
              "key": "remote_friendly",
              "count": 752,
              "label": "Remote-friendly",
              "percent": 39.7
            },
            {
              "key": "office_first",
              "count": 0,
              "label": "Office-first",
              "percent": 0.0
            },
            {
              "key": "unknown",
              "count": 974,
              "label": "Not enough evidence",
              "percent": 51.4
            }
          ],
          "label": "Remote-work classification"
        },
        {
          "key": "trend",
          "rows": [
            {
              "key": "increasing",
              "count": 1,
              "label": "Increasing",
              "percent": 0.1
            },
            {
              "key": "decreasing",
              "count": 0,
              "label": "Decreasing",
              "percent": 0.0
            },
            {
              "key": "stable",
              "count": 1895,
              "label": "Stable",
              "percent": 99.9
            },
            {
              "key": "new",
              "count": 0,
              "label": "Newly tracked",
              "percent": 0.0
            }
          ],
          "label": "Remote hiring direction"
        },
        {
          "key": "expanding",
          "rows": [
            {
              "key": "cprime",
              "count": 14,
              "label": "Cprime",
              "change": 2,
              "policy_score": 73
            }
          ],
          "label": "Companies expanding remote hiring"
        },
        {
          "key": "clearest",
          "rows": [
            {
              "key": "propelus",
              "label": "Propelus",
              "value": 100,
              "salary_transparency_percent": 100.0
            },
            {
              "key": "honor",
              "label": "Honor",
              "value": 100,
              "salary_transparency_percent": 100.0
            },
            {
              "key": "waymo",
              "label": "Waymo",
              "value": 100,
              "salary_transparency_percent": 100.0
            },
            {
              "key": "hometap",
              "label": "Hometap",
              "value": 100,
              "salary_transparency_percent": 100.0
            },
            {
              "key": "two-chairs",
              "label": "Two Chairs",
              "value": 100,
              "salary_transparency_percent": 100.0
            },
            {
              "key": "rula",
              "label": "Rula",
              "value": 100,
              "salary_transparency_percent": 98.2
            },
            {
              "key": "lattice",
              "label": "Lattice",
              "value": 100,
              "salary_transparency_percent": 100.0
            },
            {
              "key": "zocdoc",
              "label": "Zocdoc",
              "value": 100,
              "salary_transparency_percent": 100.0
            },
            {
              "key": "expel",
              "label": "Expel",
              "value": 100,
              "salary_transparency_percent": 100.0
            },
            {
              "key": "tebra",
              "label": "Tebra",
              "value": 100,
              "salary_transparency_percent": 100.0
            },
            {
              "key": "talkspace",
              "label": "Talkspace",
              "value": 100,
              "salary_transparency_percent": 100.0
            },
            {
              "key": "tailscale",
              "label": "Tailscale",
              "value": 100,
              "salary_transparency_percent": 100.0
            },
            {
              "key": "mercury",
              "label": "Mercury",
              "value": 100,
              "salary_transparency_percent": 99.0
            },
            {
              "key": "planetscale",
              "label": "Planetscale",
              "value": 100,
              "salary_transparency_percent": 100.0
            },
            {
              "key": "discord",
              "label": "Discord",
              "value": 100,
              "salary_transparency_percent": 100.0
            },
            {
              "key": "webflow",
              "label": "Webflow",
              "value": 100,
              "salary_transparency_percent": 100.0
            },
            {
              "key": "airtable",
              "label": "Airtable",
              "value": 100,
              "salary_transparency_percent": 100.0
            },
            {
              "key": "masterclass",
              "label": "MasterClass",
              "value": 100,
              "salary_transparency_percent": 100.0
            },
            {
              "key": "outschool",
              "label": "Outschool",
              "value": 100,
              "salary_transparency_percent": 100.0
            },
            {
              "key": "iterable",
              "label": "Iterable",
              "value": 100,
              "salary_transparency_percent": 100.0
            },
            {
              "key": "lithic",
              "label": "Lithic",
              "value": 100,
              "salary_transparency_percent": 100.0
            },
            {
              "key": "chime",
              "label": "Chime",
              "value": 100,
              "salary_transparency_percent": 100.0
            },
            {
              "key": "netlify",
              "label": "Netlify",
              "value": 100,
              "salary_transparency_percent": 100.0
            },
            {
              "key": "yugabytedb",
              "label": "YugabyteDB",
              "value": 100,
              "salary_transparency_percent": 100.0
            },
            {
              "key": "amplitude",
              "label": "Amplitude",
              "value": 99,
              "salary_transparency_percent": 95.8
            }
          ],
          "label": "Clearest salary and location policies"
        }
      ],
      "schema_version": 2
    }
  },
  "citation": "Source: WFH.team, Employer remote-work policies, 2026-11, revision 2 (https://wfh.team/research/datasets/employer-remote-policies/2026-11)."
}