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Collected Item: “Pandemic speeds up influx of remote workers to small cities”

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Pandemic speeds up influx of remote workers to small cities

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Screenshot

Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.

This story, which also appears on NPR, talks about how smaller cities like Burlington, Vermont are experiencing an increase of new "remote workers". They're escaping the big cities for multiple factors, many exacerbated due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

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remote work, city, suburb, moving, HSE, Burlington, Vermont, isolation

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https://hechingerreport.org/pandemic-speeds-up-influx-of-remote-workers-to-small-cities/

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

Jon Marcus

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2020-11-16
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