Posted on 09/29/2021 2:04:19 PM PDT by PoliticallyShort
Where is work getting done these days? Increasingly, in the suburbs and exurbs of the big metros, smaller metros, cities and even some rural areas, all of which offer lower urban densities, which usually means less overcrowding. In the first year of the pandemic, big cities, according to the firm American Communities and based on federal data, suffered the biggest job losses, nearly 10 percent, followed by their suburbs, while rural areas suffered 6 percent and exurbs less than 5 percent. The highest unemployment rates today are in coastal blue states, while the lowest tend to be in central and southern states.
The shift towards dispersed and remote work suggests the beginnings of a new geographical and corporate paradigm. Suburbs and exurbs accounted for more than 90 percent of all new job creation in the last decade, but with the rise of remote work, proximity to the physical workplace has lost more of its advantages. This is bad news for the left.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanmind.org ...
If people don’t have to deal with stop and go rush hour traffic, maybe manual transmissions will make a comeback. I hope so.
Fleetwood Mac/ Lindsey Buckingham ~ Never Going Back Again ~ Japan Live 1977
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxfxcEH8_Co
Our lockdown was all of three weeks in mid Spring 2020. We tossed the masks late last Spring. Kids went back to school last fall. Rural Missouri.
Fantastic!
I still lived inside the Beltway when Klinton was in office, and left DC and my first wife behind. I couldn’t take either anymore. God only knows what free-range gulag it’s become now.
The ultimate, to me, would be a Montana lifestyle and a California paycheck. You can swap your locales of choice, but if I could live in the Bitteroot and get paid like a San Franciscian, I’d be nuts not to do so.
It will kill commercial real estate development rippling throughout the economy.
Mine never left but then I abhor cities.
Funny thing is, no one will want to live in crime and shite-filled cities now that dems have proven we can work from home and live off Amazon and DoorDash, yet a major dem goal is urbanize and wreck the suburbs.
I have to go back tomorrow.
But, only Tuesdays and Thursdays. The rest of the week I work from home.
I always lived in the suburbs. Where I live now is rural, deeply rural.
Stick it to the man?
Well, THAT was quite a lengthy read! He made some good points.
“In their struggle against demand for full time office occupancy, workers may be able to exercise greater leverage, due to deep-seated labor shortages, the highest quit rate in over two decades, and low labor force growth. “You see tons of bold statements. Companies saying, ‘No remote work.’ Some companies are saying, ‘We’re getting rid of all of our offices,’” says Bret Taylor, president and chief operating officer of Salesforce, Inc. But in reality, it’s the employees calling the shots. ‘There’s like a free market of the future of work and employees are choosing which path that they want to go on.’”
This is going to get interesting!
“As jobs and people move to less dense, and less transit-dominated places, their political perspective is likely to change. They may be more likely to be homeowners and have children, which tends to move them to the right or towards the center. Suburbs tend also to be less dominated by public employee unions, and homeowners generally have far higher rates of political participation than renters, overcoming the stranglehold of organized activists so evident in big cities.”
I can live with that!
I grew up in Milwaukee, WI. We lived in a town called ‘West Allis’ and it was a Factory Town; my Dad and both Grandpas worked for Allis-Chalmers and MADE STUFF, like farm trucks and tractors and engines, etc. Our town was literally BUILT to house the factory workers. It was built BY the factory owners.
It is a whole ‘nother world out there now, but I wonder if some mid-sized businesses might re-consider this option to keep their businesses in the ‘burbs? They may not be making equipment, but whatever they ARE making needs workers and workers need shelter and food and schools, libraries, churches, a theater and some restaurants, etc. It worked for quite a few generations before. But, what do I know. *SHRUG*
One extremely successful local business is in Verona, Wisconsin. The company is EPIC Systems, and they developed the software that ties all of our medical information together. They employ thousands. The owner is a little nutty, but she has SERIOUSLY put little Verona ON THE MAP. (She also built them a Library.) I travel there once a week or so and it is BOOMING.
Touring the place is great fun. People come from all over the WORLD to see the campus.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/epiccampus
If people don’t have to deal with stop and go rush hour traffic, maybe manual transmissions will make a comeback. I hope so.
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Do you still have a Compuserve email address?
I work for large banks. Neither I nor any of my colleagues wants to go back. Ever.
I know from friends and headhunters that banks are having a hell of a time getting the talent they want if they do not offer 100% remote work. I already turned down one which did not offer that in favor of another which did.
It saves me about $6-7k per year in expenses and does not eat up and hour and a half of my day every day - uncompensated - in a stressful commute in heavy traffic. Why would I go back if I had any choice?
I put over 20,000 miles on my 1 ton Chevy dually truck with a 454 gas engine in it. 4 speed Granny low=stump puller.
“The shift towards dispersed and remote work suggests the beginnings of a new geographical and corporate paradigm”
Pronounced “paradiggem” by those that truly know.
The downside is the massive amount of commuting.
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