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Originally Posted by Steely Dan
as a new soldier in the permanent WFH army, i've been wondering a lot about the bolded above.
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Yeah, it's also unclear how it would work. If you commute from the Shenandoah Valley once a week to D.C. are you counted as part of the 15/25 cross-commuting interchange?
Do you have to commute 3 times a day?
If they adopt a 1 of 5 day standard, then MSAs could massively expand, as you have lots of rural counties where WFH DCers have been buying cottages (Rappahannock, Madison, Greene, Luray, Shenandoah Counties). It won't take many WFHers moving in to massively warp the commuting data.
Conversely, what happens if you're WFH permanently from a county that's not "central." Now you're no longer commuting between counties at all, so you're making it much harder for a county to stay in an MSA.
So how telework is counted could be the difference between MSAs massively expanding or potentially even contracting.