Two years after the great return-to-office push, the remote market has quietly reorganized rather than disappeared.
The headline mandates made news, but the durable shift is structural: fully-remote roles concentrated in smaller, younger companies and in specific functions — engineering, design, support, and writing — while large incumbents pulled hybrid. The roles didn’t vanish; they moved.
The contractor-classification fight is the story to watch. How it resolves will reshape how platforms hire global freelancers, and we’ll cover the practical fallout for independent workers as it lands.
