Remote work hiring continues to rise
February 20, 2024
While numerous employers have been very vocal about their desire to bring workers back into the office, remote work continues to rise, according to a recent report.
Overall, the number of Canadian organizations hiring Canadian workers grew by 64 per cent in 2023, according to a Deel report.
But the number of Canadian organizations hiring American workers increased 46 per cent last year.
“How we define global [remote] work is usually cross-border work, and it must be a remote component. So this includes digital nomads. But it also includes people working, for example, in Calgary for a company based in Toronto,” says Samuel Dahan, chair of Deel Labs, in talking with Canadian HR Reporter.
“It’s still growing very fast.”
Deel itself has continued to hire remote workers, says Dahan.
“The theory or the prediction that there’s a return to office policy so people are not going to be working remotely… It seems that it never really materialized.”
Remote workers are getting paid
The U.S., the U.K., Canada, Germany and Australia are the top countries hiring remote workers, according to Deel’s report, which aggregates data from its over 300,000 contracts and over 20,000 customers across more than 160 countries, as well as over 500,000 data points from third-party sources.
