Two years into the pandemic, US tech jobs remain concentrated in a handful of coastal hubs. But a new set of cities is gaining ground.
If they were trying to seed the next Heartland Silicon Valley, they had their work cut out for them.from the Brookings Institution shows that despite hopes that work from anywhere would thrive during the pandemic, most tech workers didn’t fan out across the country at all. Instead they remained concentrated in a small but growing group of cities.
So has the so-called remote work revolution spawned a grand dispersal of tech jobs? Not really. But it has prompted some modest reshuffling. George Valdes, head of marketing at the architecture software startup Monograph, has one of these jobs. His wife gave birth to their daughter in June 2020, three months after the company went fully remote. Valdes lived in Oakland, California, where the air soon grew thick with wildfire smoke. When this happened, Valdes would drive his family south to stay with his aunt in Los Angeles until the air quality improved. “After a couple times of doing that, we thought, we need to get out of here.
. “The hype around remote has not really changed the economic fundamentals,” he says. For one thing, fully remote work continues to represent a small slice of the overall workforce: It tripled during the first month of the pandemic, but still only represented 6 percent of total office jobs. Then the amount of fully remote jobs on offer quickly leveled off.
Muro also points to the emphasis on idea exchange, particularly amongst new technologies. A growing body of research finds that face-to-face interactions promote learning. Economists call this “knowledge spillover.” The more faces, it would seem, the better. When Morettithe careers of about 100,000 inventors, he discovered a striking rise in the number and quality of patents they filed after moving to a large hub, or cluster.
Excell’s shortlist included San Francisco, Seattle, Chicago, Austin, Charlotte, Denver, Miami, and Atlanta, all home to big pools of tech talent. But Atlanta stood out, not just for its diversity, but for its universities and concentration of payment processing firms, which make up many of Featurespace’s customers.
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