The Super Commute
Remote Works: Work Rebalanced
English - April 28, 2021 04:05 - 21 minutes - 19.8 MBBusiness Technology remote workers employee technology business collaboration flexible work future of work work experience remote Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Flexible work has empowered people to choose where they want to live. This past year there has been a shift away from large urban centres in the U.S. The number of people moving out of big cities in 2020 was far greater than in 2019. We’ll find out where they’re going and what the shift means for housing markets, for flexible workers and for the companies they work for.
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Daryl Fairweather is Chief Economist with Redfin , a tech-powered real estate brokerage based in Seattle. A Redfin-commissioned survey from November/December 2020 found that "Two-thirds of homebuyers and sellers would consider moving—or already have moved—to a different city or area given the opportunity to work remotely permanently." Read more about the survey here
Nicholas Bloom is a professor of economics at Stanford University in California. He has been studying remote work for years.