The remote interview report: what public data actually shows

Remote interviews happen inside a larger shift in where work is done. Two long-running sources are useful here: Gallup's hybrid-work indicator for the United States, and Buffer's State of Remote Work survey of remote workers worldwide.

• Gallup's hybrid-work indicator reports that 52% of U.S. employees with remote-capable jobs work in a hybrid arrangement, 26% exclusively remote and 22% on-site (source: Gallup, see below).
• The same indicator reports that 61% of remote-capable employees prefer a hybrid schedule.
• Buffer's 2023 State of Remote Work, based on 3,000 remote workers, reports that 98% would like to work remotely at least some of the time for the rest of their careers.
• The same Buffer survey reports that 91% describe their remote-work experience as positive.

Interview-based media keeps growing, and Edison Research's Infinite Dial series is the long-running survey of record for it in the United States.

• The Infinite Dial 2025 reports that 70% of Americans age 12+ have listened to a podcast, 51% have watched one, and 73% have consumed a podcast in audio or video — an estimated 210 million people (source: Edison Research, see below).
• The Infinite Dial 2024 reported that 67% of Americans age 12+ had ever listened to a podcast, up from 64% the year before, and that an estimated 98 million people listened weekly.
• Edison's Podcast Consumer 2025 reports that total time spent with podcasts among those aged 13+ grew 355% since 2015, to 773 million hours per week.

Why record locally instead of relying on a video call? One part of the answer is quality, another is that video meetings carry their own cost. The most-cited reference is a peer-reviewed article by Jeremy N. Bailenson in the journal Technology, Mind, and Behavior (2021).

• Bailenson's article proposes four causes of "Zoom fatigue", grouped under the idea of nonverbal overload.
• It is a theoretical argument, and the article itself notes the mechanisms still need direct testing — it is a framework, not a measured rate.
• The practical reading for interviewers: a tool built for recording can reduce the number of things happening on screen at once.

• Every figure on this page was read on the source's own page, which is linked below.
• Most figures describe the United States; they are not global averages.
• Survey figures move year to year; check the source for the current edition before citing.
• This page is a reading aid, not original research, and it contains no Airtape data.