{"id":10537,"date":"2025-10-21T11:18:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T11:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/10537\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T11:18:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T11:18:07","slug":"why-new-york-stinks-for-remote-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/10537\/","title":{"rendered":"Why New York Stinks for Remote Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remote work remains popular despite companies pushing for people to return to the office.\u00a0Studies<\/a> show that remote work is more efficient and productive, and actually saves companies money, but property values and assets are what the rich focus on. Yes, remote work saves more money for companies in the long run than the property values.<\/p>\n

So, if you’ve been working remotely since the pandemic, there’s a good chance you’ve been asked to return to the office\u2014or, at least, to be hybrid. In New York State<\/a>, that might not be a good thing. A recent study does not rank New York<\/a> as a good state to work remotely in, but why?<\/p>\n

New York State Doesn’t Rank Well for Remote Work<\/p>\n

According to WalletHub.com<\/a>, New York State ranks 32nd out of 51 for remote work. 51 because Washington, D.C. is counted along with the 50 states. They ranked the states based on two main categories: Working Environment Ranking and Living Environment Ranking.<\/p>\n

32nd is certainly not the worst, but it’s not good. Especially when you look at New York’s Living Environment Ranking, which is a poor 48th out of 41. The State did decently in their Work Environment Ranking at 15th. So, why is the living environment so bad?<\/p>\n

Why New York Stinks for Working Remotely<\/p>\n

Wallet Hub came up with their\u00a0Living Environment Ranking based heavily on Internet cost, Average home per square foot, and\u00a0median square footage per average number of persons in a household. While the cost of the internet is not cheap in New York State, especially downstate, when you talk about the size of a home, it’s clear:\u00a0New York City<\/a> is why\u00a0New York State\u00a0is ranked so poorly in this study.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: This Law Only Exists in New York State<\/a><\/p>\n

These metrics are just not nearly as bad in Upstate<\/a>, the North Country, Southern Tier<\/a>, Finger Lakes<\/a>, or Western New York<\/a>. There, home sizes are not literal closets like in the city. They are often above 1500 Square Feet. Cheap internet, though, is a state-wide issue, with virtual monopolies by some providers in certain areas.<\/p>\n

Do you still work remotely?<\/p>\n

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Gallery Credit: Leslie Morgan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Remote work remains popular despite companies pushing for people to return to the office.\u00a0Studies show that remote work…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[232,9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-10537","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-lifestyle","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-headlines","11":"tag-new-york-news","12":"tag-new-york-state","13":"tag-new-york-state-headlines","14":"tag-new-york-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}