Remote workers flocked to 'Zoom towns' during Covid—now they're competing to stay work-from-home

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Remote workers flocked to 'Zoom towns' during Covid—now they're competing to stay work-from-home
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In Bend, Ore., nearly 3 in 4 job applications are to roles that are remote, according to LinkedIn's latest Workforce Insights Report.

Fully remote jobs are getting harder to come by, but the competition for work-from-home jobs is especially fierce in some parts of the country.

In Bend, Ore., nearly 3 in 4 job applications are to roles that are remote, according to LinkedIn's latest, which analyzed more than 201 million applications to remote jobs in the U.S. over the past year. Just two years ago, remote jobs in Bend attracted about 42% of applications. Nationally, just 11% of open jobs on LinkedIn offer remote work, but they attract close to 50% of total job applications as of May.

Here are the top 10 metro areas seeing the greatest amount of interest in work-from-home jobs, along with the share of applications going to remote-specific openings, according to LinkedIn:

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