Conventional wisdom holds that the best way to distress and decompress from a difficult workday is to get away from the jobsite and into fresh air.
It follows that the locations in the United States that accounted for the highest percentage of remote workers (aged 16 and up) between 2015 and 2020 were relatively small municipalities that enjoy easy access to Mother Nature's majesty.
The international tech company SysAid recently analyzed remote worker data to determine the "best places for remote work in the U.S." Using U.S. Census Bureau data that included (only) the first year of the pandemic, researchers determined that the Martha's Vineyard area of Vineyard Haven in Massachusetts, where 17% of workers are remote, is the best place in the U.S. to telecommute. Mississippi, Puerto Rico and Louisiana are the worst places in the U.S. to be a remote worker, according to SysAid.
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Elana Ashanti Jefferson
Elana Ashanti Jefferson serves as ALM's PropertyCasualty360 Group Chief Editor. She is a veteran journalist and communications professional. Reach her by sending an e-mail to [email protected].
