by Noah Baustin : sfstandard – excerpt (includes map)

The Bay Area blossomed as the nation’s work-from-home capital after the Covid pandemic drove the area’s tech companies to embrace remote models. But where people are logging on remotely for work within the region varies dramatically from county to county and neighborhood to neighborhood, according to data released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau.

In some Bay Area enclaves, the majority of workers clock in from home, but in others, virtually everyone still physically travels to work, according to the data.

As a whole, the Census Bureau estimates that about 735,000 of the 3.9 million Bay Area workers—19%—clocked in from home during the survey’s period. That’s far above the national work-from-home rate of 12% of American workers. The largest share of the Bay Area’s remote workers come from Santa Clara County, with 189,000 working from home, about 20% of the workforce. That may be contributing to the significant amount of empty office space in that county…(more)

Work from home numbers in the north bay could explain why the Gold Gate Bridge has seen a decline in traffic.