Remote Workers Are Still Moving Away From the Office — Here's Where They're GoingSlower-paced lifestyles and lower costs of living continue to be major draws.

ByAmanda Breen

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Since the start of thepandemic,remote work越来越多地给许多美国人自由to choose where they want to live — regardless of its proximity to a physical office.

And some of them are still leaving bigger cities behind. According to a survey from review crowdsourcerYelp, which examined three years of internal data on its own fully remote workforce, the number of employees living near its office locations saw a steep drop from 2019 to 2022,Bloombergreported.

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As of 2022, many U.S.remote workersweren't working from home out of necessity but because they preferred it (76% compared to 60% in 2020), and nearly 20% said they were working remotely because they'd relocated, per aPew Research Centerstudy.

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

During that same period, the number of Yelp employees residing inFloridaand Texas increased four times over.

Related:Survey Reveals 4 Transformational Remote Work Trends

"Many of the employees we've spoken with moved away from former office locations to areas with a lower cost of living, with some individuals purchasing their first home or enjoying a slower pace of life," said Carmen Whitney Orr, the company's chief people officer.

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Amanda Breen

Entrepreneur Staff

Features Writer

Amanda Breen is a features writer at Entrepreneur.com. She is a graduate of Barnard College and received an MFA in writing at Columbia University, where she was a news fellow for the School of the Arts.

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