While some people have always had the pleasure of working from home, many more workers got the opportunity to do it thanks to the pandemic. These days, the job market for remote workers may be shrinking in some cities, but it’s thriving in others. And a new paper from the U.S. National Bureau of Economic Research reveals which ones those are.
The research looked at over 250-million job vacancies for remote or hybrid work posted between January 2014 and January 2023. It identifies the cities where remote jobs are growing the fastest, focusing on five English-speaking countries: the U.S., the U.K., Australia, Canada and New Zealand. According to the paper, the U.K. is outpacing the U.S., Australia, Canada and New Zealand for remote, flexible jobs, which the researchers say is not surprising, given that “the U.K. is on the whole more skewed towards white-collar jobs with a higher propensity to be worked from home.”
The top 10 cities where the share of remote jobs has seen the biggest increase:
- Washington, D.C. (U.S.)
- San Francisco (U.S.)
- London (U.K.)
- Glasgow (U.K.)
- Chicago (U.S.)
- Atlanta (U.S.)
- Phoenix (U.S.)
- New York (U.S.)
- Sydney (Australia)
- Toronto (Canada)
Source: CNBC