SF RTO Trends - Dec 2024

The Hybrid Work Continuum | Technology

June 3, 2025

Remote/Virtual Extensive global virtual remote work

Hybrid-Work Employees generally required to be in the office at least one day a week

Office-Centric Employees primarily in the office

Apple

Established

Late Stage/RECENT IPO

RECENTLY FOUNDED / VC FUNDED

Amazon

In office 5-days a week starting January 5th, 2025.

Asana

3-days a week

Verkada

Office Centric

"We think an in office environment is superior to remote work in fostering passionate debate, idea-sharing, competitiveness and collaboration.”

Apple

3-days a week

Employees expected to be in the office Tues, Thurs and a third day determined by team lead.

JLL

4 days a week

Adept.AI

Full-time in office

"We're looking for passionate team members who want to swing for the fences to accomplish our mission, are excited by a startup environment where the hardest problems are yet to be solved, and are eager to learn and collaborate together in our San Francisco office."

Palantir

Office-Centric

'In keeping consistent with Palantir’s values and culture, we believe employees are “better together” and in-person work affords the opportunity for more creative outcomes. Therefore, we encourage employees to work from our offices to foster connectivity and innovation. Many teams do offer hybrid options (WFH a day or two a week), allowing our employees to strike the right trade-off for their personal productivity.'

Stripe

Team Dependent

Stripe is encouraging certain teams to come back to the office as they have team-dependent RTO policy. Stripe employees are required to be in the office at least 50% of the time.

Reddit

Flexible

Work in the office, remotely, or a combination of the two. Up to $1,800 reimbursed for home workspace. Facility and IT employees required in office.

Gitlab

Remote-first

Gitlab 100% WFH No physical space

Microsoft

50% of time in office

Microsoft expects employees to spend 50% of their time in the office, but. it is up to managers to coordinate with their team members the times that work best for them.

Grammarly

Flexible - office encouraged

'Going forward, Grammarly team members can work primarily from home. We recognize the many advantages of remote work, like commute savings and more focus time. We continue to believe that in-person interaction helps us build trusting relationships and a welcoming, supportive culture that fosters innovation. That’s why our new working model includes essential time for face-to-face collaboration among teams each quarter—such as for strategic planning, project kick-offs, brainstorms, and retrospectives.'

ByteDance (TikTok)

Full-Time in Office

5-days a week. Professional barista serves free drinks, miscellaneous drinks, fruit; snacks at every floor available. Free pool and other indoors leisure games with prayer room and state of the art mothers room.

OctoML

Remote First

'Enjoy a remote-first culture, family-friendly policies, flexible work schedules, and a generous stipend to outfit your home office.'

Hex Technologies

Remote First

At Hex we have a remote-first, work-from-wherever-you-want culture. Hex has offices in San Francisco and New York.

Dropbox

Remote First

Dropbox 100% WFH Dropbox declared itself a virtual first company, employees but uses it's offices for team collaboration and meetings.

Anyscale

Required 3-days a week

Employees are required to come in three times a week

Tesla

Full-Time in Office

Elon Musk: 'Tesla employees must return to office work or leave the company. Minimum 40 hours work week in office. Musk will directly review exemption requests from exceptional contributors.'

Roblox

3-days a week

3-days a week for most employees with remote only option available. Encourages in person relationships.

Rebellion Defense

Remote first

'We minimize hierarchy and remain remote-first. We've embraced a remote-first approach and intentionally avoid unnecessary hierarchies.'

Anthropic

25%+ in office

'We're an extremely collaborative group, and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such, we greatly value communication skills.'

Scale.AI

2-days per week

“We welcome guests to our offices, and you can expect to see Scalien families and friends around.”

Meta

3-days a week

Meta will require that office-assigned staff return to in-person work for at least three days a week starting September 5th

Webflow

Flexible

“We are headquartered in San Francisco but more than half of our team is remote, working in places like Australia, Lebanon, Poland, and more….”

Cohere

Remote first

'We are remote-first culture and have folks located all around the world'. Cohere leased office in San Francisco's Jackson Square submarket in Q3 2023.

Salesforce

4-days+ in office

Sales, administrative, and product development teams must come in 4-days a week starting Oct. 1, 2024.

Wix

Office Centric

“The Wix culture is all about enjoying each other’s company and working together – preferably face to face.”

Figure.AI

Full-time in office

We are based in Sunnyvale, CA and require 5 days/week in-office collaboration.

Lyft

4-days a week

Workers required to be in office four days a week. Workers will be allowed to work remotely for one month each year.

Airtable

Flexible

Airtable is a flexible company that has office and allows for remote work.

Google

3-days a week

Embracing a “hybrid workweek” (WFH 2 days/ week) Work-from-anywhere allowed 4 weeks per year.

Hugging Face

Flexible

'While we have spaces in NYC and Paris, we’re very distributed and all remote employees have the opportunity to visit our offices. If needed, we’ll also outfit your workstation to ensure you succeed.'

Open.AI

3-days a week

3-days a week. 'remote work isn’t a good fit for start-ups’ –Sam Altman 'We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.'

Adyen

Hybrid

'Our working setups are flexible because we understand that big life events happen. We offer hybrid opportunities to work from home and abroad, a Global Exchange Program, and more.'

Cruise

Cruiseflex

Our answer is CruiseFlex: a working policy for US-based Cruisers that lets you and your manager find what works best for you, whether it’s in-person, remote, or a hybrid of the two”

Inflection.AI

2-3 days a week

"We work in a hybrid model. During the week we’re in the office on a flexible basis, often a few days per week. We are currently hiring in Palo Alto and London, although we do sometimes make exceptions. We work on a 6 week cycle. Every 7th week, we convene together in person as a company to brainstorm, bond and build. "

Adobe

50% in office

Adobe to WFH for half of the week. Will have an intentional mix of physical and virtual presences.

Lacework

Flexible

'Lacework rose to the top 10, however, after ranking No. 98 just a year ago, thanks in part to the company’s unique position to help drive business value for organizations embracing remote and hybrid work models.'

Vercel

Remote First

“We are 100% remote-work friendly”

Snap

4-days a week

Snap has ordered employees back to the office 4 days a week starting in February 2023. CEO Evan Spiegel wants workers to sacrifice ‘individual convenience’ for ‘collective success’ in a policy called ‘default together’

Cellarity

Hybrid and flexible

'We work in a hybrid model. During the week we’re in the office on a flexible basis, often a few days per week. We are currently hiring in Palo Alto and London, although we do sometimes make exceptions. We work on a 6 week cycle. Every 7th week, we convene together in person as a company to brainstorm, bond and build. '

Chime

Team Dependent

‘For some Chimers, working from wherever they are is how they do their best work—we call them our Remote Chimers! Remote Chimers enjoy many of the same benefits as our in-office Chimers.’

Rippling

Flexible

Rippling has a flexible work environment with many jobs available remote. In general, employees are expected to be in office three days a week.

Ripple

Set days

Specific Days in office set by manager but all employees come in on Tuesday

Uber

3-days a week

Uber asking employees to work from the office Tuesdays and Thursdays, plus another workday. Uber allows employees to choose their office location.