41% of Orange County, CA Workers Would Leave If Offered Remote Job w/ Good Pay

Pricey living in Orange County is driving people to consider someplace else as home.

A new poll released Friday, Aug. 8, found 41% of the people who either work in an office building, or split time out of their home, would bolt for someplace else if they got a remote job.

It’s an ominous trend that Jon Gould, dean of the School of Social Ecology at UC Irvine and director of the UCI-OC Poll, says employers in Orange County should take note — no matter the state of the economy.

For sure, the whole concept of a hybrid workweek was prompted by the global pandemic, which caused a restructuring of where people work, dividing time between an office and home.