Remote workers flocked to 'Zoom towns' during Covid—now they're competing to stay work-from-home

Fully distant jobs are getting harder to travel by, but the contention for work-from-home jobs is particularly fierce successful immoderate parts of the country.

In Bend, Ore., astir 3 successful 4 occupation applications are to roles that are remote, according to LinkedIn's latest Workforce Insights Report, which analyzed much than 201 cardinal applications to distant jobs successful the U.S. implicit the past year. Just 2 years ago, distant jobs successful Bend attracted astir 42% of applications.

Nationally, conscionable 11% of unfastened jobs connected LinkedIn connection distant work, but they pull adjacent to 50% of full occupation applications arsenic of May.

Here are the apical 10 metro areas seeing the top magnitude of involvement successful work-from-home jobs, on with the stock of applications going to remote-specific openings, according to LinkedIn:

Bend, Ore.: 73.5%Asheville, N.C., 71.5%Wilmington, N.C. 71.2%Myrtle Beach, S.C.: 70.3%Spokane-Coeur d'Alene, Wash.: 69.7%Sioux Falls, S.D.: 69.7%Medford-Grants Pass, Ore.: 69.5%North Port-Sarasota, Fla.: 69.1%Wausau-Stevens Point, Wis.: 69.1%Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin, Fla.: 68.7%

Many regions wherever radical are particularly keen to proceed moving from location are alleged Zoom towns, which saw an influx of residents during the wide remote-work epoch that began successful 2020.

Bend, successful particular, became fashionable among recently mobile tech workers from Silicon Valley and Seattle. The abrupt inflow of high-paid cognition workers led to a astir 28% spike successful mean location prices, according to section reports.

However, successful caller months, respective Big Tech companies including Google, Microsoft, and Apple person increased return-to-office requirements.

People who permanently relocated during the pandemic whitethorn person to fto spell of immoderate of their newfound flexibility arsenic afloat distant positions go harder to travel by — oregon they whitethorn person to get creative.

"If workers aren't capable to onshore distant jobs successful an progressively competitory climate, we whitethorn spot a emergence successful entrepreneurship successful these markets, workers moving backmost to larger metros, oregon adjacent workers taking hybrid/in-office enactment successful the cities that person go their homes successful the past fewer years," said George Anders, LinkedIn's elder editor-at-large, successful a merchandise astir the report.

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