Ready Or Not, We’re Working From Home

Miami was deemed the 6th least prepared large metropolitan area in the country for the pandemic-imposed shift to work from home, a new study found.

The research looked at home working conditions in 53 metro areas with more than a million residents for preparedness for working from home.

As COVID-19 spread last year, workers with the job descriptions and means to do so migrated to home offices and Zoom meetings. But how ready were they to do that?

Filterbuy, the air filter retailer that conducted the study, weighed several factors for each metro area, from the percentage of workers employed in remote-friendly jobs to the percentage of households with an extra bedroom that could be converted to a home office.

Research showed that in the Miami, Fort Lauderdale and Pompano Beach areas 29.9 percent of all workers have remote-friendly jobs, which is below the national average of 30.7 percent and 52.9 percent of Miami area households have at least one spare bedroom that could be used for a work space.

The study also reveals that 78.6 percent of households were equipped with a laptop or desktop computer, 71.8 percent had broadband internet, and the median number of households rooms per person was 2.

By contrast, the nation’s most prepared metro — Raleigh, N.C. — had a workforce with 35.9 percent ready to work remotely. More than 84 percent of Raleigh households had a laptop or computer and 78.6 percent had broadband internet.

San Antonio was the least prepared large city for the pandemic, according to the study.

Visit filterbuy.com/resources/cities-most-prepared-to-work-from-home.