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Best and Worst US Cities for Remote Work Job Openings
San Francisco makes the list, but just barely, while the least remote-friendly cities are typically found in Southern states.
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Remote jobs are still plentiful, but these days you have to know where to look.
The most remote-friendly city isn’t San Francisco or San Jose, California, but Bloomfield, Connecticut, headquarters of insurer Cigna Group, where nearly half of job vacancies offer some freedom to work from home. It’s followed by Augusta, the capital of Maine, and Dover, Delaware, according to a team of researchers who analyzed the share of job vacancies that specifically allow working from home at least one day a week. The top ten isn’t limited to cities in the Northeast; also making the cut are Lansing, Michigan, and Helena, Montana.