{"id":10004,"date":"2023-02-15T12:42:49","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T12:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=10004"},"modified":"2023-02-15T12:42:49","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T12:42:49","slug":"it-looks-like-people-are-actually-moving-back-to-san-francisco-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=10004","title":{"rendered":"It looks like people are actually moving back to San Francisco (really)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n\n&#8220;Why are people moving to San Francisco? In some sense, it\u2019s a matter of popular cities continuing to be popular. That means people still find value and jobs there. The Bay Area is culturally rich, with people \u2014 and culture and food \u2014 from around the world. While tech companies have been cutting back on hiring lately, the area is still the home base to their giant and lucrative businesses, meaning there\u2019s still plenty of opportunity for workers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There\u2019s reason to believe that people aren\u2019t just moving back to San Francisco because they want to. The move back also represents a solidification of remote work policies, in which many companies have come down on the side of hybrid work, where people are still expected in the office some of the time. In other words, people who may have wanted to move elsewhere permanently have been forced back to the Bay Area, though perhaps in different locations than they had been.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The decision to return to the Bay Area could also come from employees who are hoping to put in face time with their bosses ahead of a potential recession. Studies have shown that bosses view people who work in the offices more favorably and are more likely to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/worklife\/article\/20220713-is-it-up-to-employees-to-fix-the-remote-work-promotion-gap\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">consider them for promotion<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/recode\/2023\/1\/18\/23542444\/san-francisco-bay-area-population-moving-linkedin\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/recode\/2023\/1\/18\/23542444\/san-francisco-bay-area-population-moving-linkedin<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Why are people moving to San Francisco? In some sense, it\u2019s a matter of popular cities continuing to be popular. That means people still find value and jobs there. The Bay Area is culturally rich, with people \u2014 and culture and food \u2014 from around the world. While tech companies have been cutting back on hiring lately, the area is still the home base to their giant and lucrative businesses, meaning there\u2019s still plenty of opportunity for workers.<br \/>\nThere\u2019s reason to believe that people aren\u2019t just moving back to San Francisco because they want to. The move back also represents a solidification of remote work policies, in which many companies have come down on the side of hybrid work, where people are still expected in the office some of the time. In other words, people who may have wanted to move elsewhere permanently have been forced back to the Bay Area, though perhaps in different locations than they had been.<\/p>\n<p>The decision to return to the Bay Area could also come from employees who are hoping to put in face time with their bosses ahead of a potential recession. Studies have shown that bosses view people who work in the offices more favorably and are more likely to consider them for promotion.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[304,1242],"class_list":["post-10004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-california","tag-san-francisco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10005,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10004\/revisions\/10005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}