COVID-19: Professionals Leave The Bay Area

If you had a choice to work from home as much as you would like, would you consider relocating? Blind, an anonymous community of verified professionals with 3.6 million users, asked this question in May, and then again last week.

In May we learned that 4,400 users across these three major cities show intentions of limiting their time physically going to the office. 15% anticipated never returning to the office. After Twitter’s permanent work from home announcement, 66% of Twitter employees in the Bay Area do not anticipate relocating.

Download the full May report here: The Permanent Relocation

When we reopened the survey in last week we learned that 15% of Bay Area professionals have already relocated out of the city, according to results.

3,300 users across the Bay Area show intentions of limiting their time physically going to the office. 16% anticipate never returning to the office, a consistent cohort since May.

Of those who have stayed, 59% would consider relocating if they had a choice to WFH as much as they’d like. 

Download full July and August deck: here.

Access the raw Data: here.

What is the community on Blind saying about Relocating?

Will you move out of the Bay if your company adopts permanent WFH? 

Will you move to Canada for the same pay as USA? 

https://www.teamblind.com/post/bay-area-are-you-really-movingdid-you-move-YPi0w0EU 

if you were to move out of bay area? 

If you live in the Bay Area have you considered moving because of Covid19? 

For questions, I can be reached at fiorella@teamblind.com