Bay Area residents have grown more pessimistic, according to new results from an exclusive poll. But there’s one thing that has improved their lives — working from home.
About half of those polled continue to have the option to work from home, and nearly everyone given the choice is taking advantage of it, at least some of the time.
Of those surveyed in the online poll earlier this month, 62% said the Bay Area is on the “wrong track” a startling increase of 10 percentage points fromNearly three-quarters of respondents said quality of life in the Bay Area has worsened during the last five years. Their biggest worries were the cost of housing, the cost of living, homelessness and drought.
Crime too is an increasing worry for Bay Area residents, with 49% describing it as an extremely serious problem up 12 percentage points from last year, the largest jump on the list. But working from home during the pandemic gave Jones, who works in finance, the opportunity to coach his daughter’s soccer team something he never could have done while going to the office five days a week. Now, like many in the Bay Area, he wants a flexible schedule that mixes remote work with occasional days in the office.
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