Grooving: Where Will You Live if You WFH?

<p>We saw an article in the Wall Street Journal titled “When Workers Can Live Anywhere, Many Ask: Why Do I Live Here?” and it got us thinking. Millions of white-collar workers have been displaced from their offices and are being told they are on indefinite work-from-home status. And many of those workers are opting to leave the big cities where the virus has been most aggressive.</p> <p>In addition to the temporary exodus to more rural settings, some people are leaving big cities to find permanent solace in the countryside.</p> <p>This got us thinking about how humans are predictably irrational about decisions about their futures. The biases about future happiness go hand in hand with changing where you live.</p> <p>The article that got us thinking about this was written by Rachel Feintzeig and Ben Eisen. Together, they do a great job of assembling data on the movement during the heart of the crisis and notes that even with a major recession hitting the global economy, many people feel the need to move.</p> <p>© 2020 Behavioral Grooves</p> <p> </p> Links <p>“When Workers Can Live Anywhere, Many Ask: Why Do I Live Here?” from the Wall Street Journal, June 17, 2020: <a href='https://www.wsj.com/articles/when-workers-can-live-anywhere-many-ask-why-do-i-live-here-11592386201'>https://www.wsj.com/articles/when-workers-can-live-anywhere-many-ask-why-do-i-live-here-11592386201</a></p> <p>“Is It Time to Let Employees Work from Anywhere?” by Prithwiraj (Raj) Choudhury, Barbara Z. Larson and Cirrus Foroughi, August 14, 2019, in HBR: <a href='https://hbr.org/2019/08/is-it-time-to-let-employees-work-from-anywhere'>https://hbr.org/2019/08/is-it-time-to-let-employees-work-from-anywhere</a></p> <p>Remote Work Statistics: Shifting Norms and Expectations from February 2020: <a href='https://www.flexjobs.com/blog/post/remote-work-statistics/#:~:text=Remote%20Work%20Is%20Increasing&text=Over%20the%20last%20five%20years,or%203.4%25%20of%20the%20population.'>https://www.flexjobs.com/blog/post/remote-work-statistics/#: