RALEIGH – North Carolina has another accolade to use when recruiting businesses to locate here in these pandemic times: The state ranks No. 2 for “Best Working from Home” in a new study from financial information site WalletHub.
That’s important since as WalletHub notes more than 70% of workers continue to telework from home for their jobs.
The state, which ranks ninth in terms of population and topped the 2020 list for best business climate by Site Selection magazine, came in just behind Delaware based on a wide variety of data utilized by WalletHub for the study.
And a professor at Meredith College in Raleigh doesn’t see companies returning soon to an in-office work strategy.
“[C]companies will be looking to get their employees back in the workplace once the pandemic is over, but I think it will look much different,” said Joe Mazzola, Associate Professor of Psychology and Director of the Industrial/Organizational Psychology MA Program.
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