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Half of Adults Would Change Jobs to Work Remotely, Verizon Finds

Many employees who “have acclimated to remote work are not in a rush to go back to an office full-time,” Verizon reported Thursday. Of the 3,000 U.S. adults canvassed online March 14-16 in a Verizon-sponsored Morning Consult poll, half would…

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consider changing jobs to continue remote or hybrid work; 54% work remotely at least part time, vs. 28% pre-pandemic. Nearly seven in 10 prefer to continue in a year working remotely at least one to two days a week. A quarter hope to return to a physical office full time by a year from now. Nearly a third say they upgraded or considered upgrading their home internet bandwidth and their mobile data plans within the past year. Two-thirds spend at least three hours weekly watching live TV. Nearly six in 10 say the same about watching content through a streaming service. Forty-seven percent subscribed to a new streaming service during the pandemic, and 70% say they have binge-watched a show.