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Distant Employees Are Nonetheless Shifting Away From the Workplace — Here is The place They’re Going

Since the pandemic began, remote work has increasingly given many Americans the freedom to choose where they live — regardless of proximity to a physical office.

And some of them are still outperforming larger cities. According to a survey by ratings crowdsourcer Yelp, which examined three years of internal data on its own fully remote workforce, the number of employees living near its office locations fell sharply from 2019 to 2022, Bloomberg reported.

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As of 2022, many U.S. teleworkers were working not out of necessity but because of preference (76% compared to 60% in 2020), and nearly 20% said they were working remotely because they had moved, per a Pew Research Center study.

In the case of Yelp’s workforce, many employees are leaving big, expensive cities. The number of workers living near the company’s San Francisco headquarters fell by 70%, and those living near offices in New York, Washington DC and Chicago fell by 67%.

During the same period, the number of Yelp employees in Florida and Texas increased four-fold.

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“Many of the employees we spoke to have relocated from previous office locations to areas with a lower cost of living, with some individuals buying their first homes or enjoying a slower pace of life,” said Carmen Whitney Orr, the company’s chief officer.

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