Americans Now Live Farther from Their Employers - Mert Akan, Jose Maria Barrero, Nicholas Bloom, Tom Bowen,

That would cause us to overstate the true distance from the worker’s home to the correct employer location – i.e., the one the worker actually travels to when working at the employer’s site. [...] 4 Weighting the individual-level employee observations • We weight the individual-level data, so that the re-weighted distribution of employees across cells defined by the cross product of age bin, sex and major industry group in the Gusto data from 2018 to 2023 matches the corresponding distribution in the CPS from 2018 to 2023. [...] 8 Distribution of the distance from residence to employer after the pandemic has shifted to the right About 20 Notes: The sample contains miles away employees of 6,813 firms in a from work balanced panel of firms. [...] 13 Mean distance rises more for workers in their 30s The 30 year olds show the larger increase in distance from work, while the 50+ group see the smallest distance Notes: The sample contains employees of 5,793 firms in a balanced panel of firms. [...] 22 We reweighted the Gusto data to match the current population survey by employee age and gender Notes: Gusto sample is employees of the balanced panel of 5793 firms with non-missing age, gender, and industry codes from January 2018 to December 2023 after the firm level data cleaning for long pre-pandemic work-home distances.