23% Of Professionals Have Relocated Out Of A Major City
23% of professionals have relocated out of a major city & share where they’re moving to
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The "Silicon Valley Exodus" has been a prominent discussion for months. Back in May, Blind asked tech professionals, "If you had a choice to WFH as much as you would like, would you consider relocating?" The survey was opened to the San Francisco Bay Area, New York, and Seattle Area. Through these results, we learned that 66% of professionals on Blind would consider relocating (Download full report here: The Permanent relocation).
This week, we followed up to see where those 66% of professionals currently are.
We asked 6,135 professionals between 1/29/21-2/08/21:
Since WFH began, have you relocated out of a major city? Where did you move away from? Where did you move to?Professionals Have Relocated Out Of A Major City
Key learnings:
Since WFH began, 23% of professionals have relocated out of a major city. 19% of professionals responded, "not yet." 39% of Bloomberg professionals have relocated out of a major city 35% of Linkedin professionals have relocated out of a major city 37% of Twitter professionals have relocated out of a major city Of the 23% of professionals that have relocated out of a major city: 47% moved away from the SF/ Bay Area 14% moved away from NYC 16% moved away from Seattle 22% moved away to "other cities," which included: Austin, Los Angeles, Miami, Raleigh, Boston, and Dallas Of the 23% of professionals that have relocated out of a major city: 7% moved to Miami 15% moved to Austin 9% moved to Seattle 4% moved to Arizona 66% moved to "other cities," which included: Atlanta, Denver, Nashville, Honolulu, and "exploring the US in a minivan while WFH from Airbnb."
The departures of companies like Tesla, Oracle, and HPE have many people questioning the future of Silicon Valley and California as a tech hub. And while only 23% of professionals have relocated to date, it's still certainly a subject on tech CEOs' minds as they ponder a post-pandemic future.
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