Zoom town: Cape Coral seeing an increase in work from home residents

Since the start of the pandemic, more people are working from home and a recently released report from LinkedIn shows Cape Coral as one of the top places remote workers are moving to. It is becoming known as a Zoom town.

The economic development manager for Cape Coral, Ricardo Noguera, told WINK News that it all boils down to the low cost of living.

He said people are realizing they can be just as productive in a smaller city as they can in a bigger one, like Chicago.

Noguera said one of the things the pandemic has taught us is that many jobs can be done remotely.

As the economic development manager for Cape Coral, he said he’s seen the economic development Florida has experienced over the last two years and he says recent data supports that.

“We currently have, and I just got a report on home-based business, 4,700 home-based businesses in this city. I projected that you could probably double that number to find out remote workers,” said Noguera

He said he’s not sure if we’ll see a decrease in the number of remote workers moving to Cape Coral because with technology constantly updating, more people are seeing the benefits of working remotely.

Now that more people are moving to the area Noguera said city leaders are looking at ways to accommodate remote workers.