Two towns in rural Pennsylvania are trying to lure — and keep — remote workers by giving them free housing for a month.
In Pennsylvania, the five applicants chosen for each town get free temporary housing. In Bellefonte, that will be one full month, mostly in bed-and-breakfasts, starting in July. The chosen remote workers will also get digital gift cards that can be used at certain businesses in the Wilds region. Recipients will be encouraged to volunteer, locally.for its remote working residency, which will run from Sept. 14 to Oct. 14.
In the early months of the pandemic, when the outdoors seemed to be the only safe space, buzz about the Wilds region grew. Getting a“Today, people don’t have to limit outdoor recreation to a vacation or a weekend getaway,” said Abbi Peters, chief operations officer at the PA Wilds Center. “They can access all these outdoor recreation opportunities we have, after work.”
It’s still unclear what lasting effect the nation’s shift to remote work will have on cities and office buildings, whether workers will ever return in great numbers. In the early months of the pandemic, real estate agents in rural Pennsylvania
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