Between 2019 and 2022, some 70% of Yelp workers who had been living near the company’s headquarters in San Francisco fled the Bay Area.
New York, San Francisco, Chicago and Washington, DC, aren’t getting any five-star ratings from employees of Yelp.
Yelp’s internal review found that its share of employees living in both Florida and Texas soared four-fold. Yelp, which has a nationwide staff of 4,400, was one of several tech companies that allowed employees to work entirely from home at the onset of the pandemic in the spring of 2020. The migration trends among Yelp employees corroborate nationwide data showing a mass exodus from New York, California, Illinois and Connecticut.Sun Belt states that offer warm weather year-round and a relatively affordable cost of living such as in Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, Texas and the Carolinas have been the beneficiaries.
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