… the team analyzed data from the 2016-2020 American Community Survey, an annual survey conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau. They found the metropolitan and the micropolitan areas that had the highest rate of remote work-from-home jobs throughout the entirety of 2020 and compared the 2020 rates against 2019’s to find where remote work had increased the most during the first year of the pandemic.
Feels low to me. Somehow it seems higher than that even pre-pandemic, but that’s just the feeling in my bubble I’m sure.
Another metric is CNBC reporting data from LinkedIn at least about the desire to work remotely.
Certain cities are emerging as remote work hotspots faster than others. Bend, Oregon topped LinkedIn’s list for the small U.S. cities where remote work is the most popular; of all the job applications that people from Bend are submitting on LinkedIn, 41.8% are for remote jobs.
I suppose there is also a distinction between working remotely and working from home. You could work remote, but not from home (like you have an office outside your home, which is not the main office). You could work from home, but it’s not remote (you work for yourself or everybody is remote so it’s not a distinction).