Nearly half of all remote workers surveyed by ApartmentList say they'll move over the next year, and four in 10 expect they'll continue to have remote or flex work post-pandemic. 

About 19% of the 5,000 US workers surveyed by the firm expect to have a hybrid arrangement allowing for WFH several days per week, while 21% say they think they'll have the ability to work exclusively from home.

These trends are driving moving activity already, ApartmentList said in a recent analysis of the data: 19% have already moved over the last year, and 42% say they'll move sometime over the next 12 months.  Of those, 35% intend to relocate to a more affordable market, more than double the rate for on-site workers, "indicating that we may see an outflow of remote workers from the nation's most expensive housing markets going forward," ApartmentList notes. "This finding also highlights the important equity implications of remote work—on-site jobs are lower paid, on average, but on-site workers have less flexibility to relocate in search of more affordable housing."