Remote Workers are Moving, What Should Your City Do?
These programs and subsidies could attract remote workers and improve local commerce.
Imagine this, your boss calls an all-hands meeting and lets the team know that the office will be closing permanently. All employees are being shifted to remote work.
You’re now free to move anywhere you like as long as it’s within plus or minus 3 hours of your current time zone. Any distance beyond that will require a salary renegotiation. It’s not unprecedented, this is the new world we live in.
Hurray! The world is now your oyster. You can re-evaluate all your wants and needs and move to a location that better suits those needs.
Maybe you want to pay fewer taxes, explore Europe, live in a place with better healthcare, or better schools. You are free to make choices that were previously restricted by location-based work.
The freedom to relocate and the uncertainty of the pandemic have combined as a primary reason the housing market is so hot right now. But some businesses are managing the shift to remote work better than others.
And some cities are adapting, offering new perks to attract remote workers.
