Fewer people are working from home today compared to years past, but remote work continues to transform America’s major cities.
Nationwide, about 12% of job openings explicitly allow remote work at least one day a week, according to data from WFH Mapa group of economists and researchers measuring the impacts of remote work, and Lightcast, a labor market analysis firm with access to online job postings across the country.
But some major cities are offering far more flexibility for people to work remotely. The No. 1 city in the country for finding a job with remote flexibility is Lansing, Michigan, where as many as 39% of job descriptions explicitly say people can work from home starting in February 2023.
Then there’s Topeka, Kansas, where 32% of current job postings openly state that they allow candidates to work remotely at least one day a week.
Here are the top 10 US cities with the highest proportion of job openings offering remote work, plus the proportion of remote job openings in each city:
- Lansing, Michigan: 39%
- Topeka, Kansas: 32%
- San Francisco, California: 30%
- Reston, Virginia: 30%
- Ann Arbor, Michigan: 29%
- Washington, DC: 27%
- Salem, Oregon: 25%
- McLean, Virginia: 25%
- Chicago: 24%
- Boston: 24%
In general, cities with a larger “tie” workforce, especially in government, technology and education, have the highest proportion of offerings offering remote or hybrid work arrangements, says Peter Lambert, Ph.D. candidate at the London School of Economics and Political Science and a member of the WFH Maps research team.
For example, Lansing, Topeka, DC, and Salem are centers for government and administrative jobs. Reston and McLean, in Virginia, are part of the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area
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Meanwhile, Lambert says, San Francisco and Reston are big tech markets, and Ann Arbor has a slew of jobs in education and professional services.
Markets with labor shortages and a high proportion of vacancies are more likely to allow remote work, compared to cities where hiring has returned to pre-pandemic levels.
Lambert says he expects this gap to widen in the future, with more companies realizing that hybrid and remote work is the “new normal” and “starting to explicitly offer it to new hires in greater numbers over the coming years.” 2023″.
Compared to its international counterparts, the share of remote job postings in the US is similar to that offered in Canada, Australia and New Zealand, ranging between 11% and 12%. Meanwhile, the UK stands out with around 18% of jobs open to remote work as of February.
Previous data from LinkedIn show that the proportion of people working primarily remotely in the US has declined since January 2021, but saw a slight rebound in early 2023.
As of January, 13% of full-time US workers are fully remote, 28% are in a hybrid arrangement and the majority, 59%, are back in the office full-time, according to data from WFH Research.
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