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The Highest Rental Rates in History and USA Crisis

Right now, amidst the pandemic of 2020, we are seeing the highest rental rates in history and big trouble for the USA, when we’re experiencing a tremendous teleworking urban exodus, rural areas are getting top dollar rents which are a fraction of the metropolitan rental rates which are more common in high tech geographic centers.

Great for those moving from the city to the country, not so much for the locals looking for a place to live because they are having to compete with the city slickers.

Highest Rental Rates

In 2020 rental rates are the highest they have ever been in all states across the USA, with California, Washington DC, and Hawaii seeing the heaviest increases of all.

The Shift from Homeownership to Rental

The tech industry has embraced the idea of renting over ownership, seeing renting as a cost of doing business, a monthly expense without the trappings of being a mortgage holder, enabling the renter to more easily relocate with little notice. This preference to rent over buying a home is spreading all across the United States, as the rental rates rise, as there are now more renters than homeowners who are renting.

2020 Pandemic Challenges

Now comes the 2020 pandemic which has people who previously worked in jobs for employers who are dropping out of the sky like raindrops. The disenfranchised workers were blessed initially with unemployment benefits and a $600 per week, that was then, this is now. The $600 is long gone, and now it’s straight unemployment compensation, which has been extended, but it is hard to make the ends meet, like that.

This is getting to dangerous proportions, as these non-telecommuting unemployed Americans are in trouble and find they are unable to pay their rent. For now, the Center for Disease Control and many states have suspended a landlord’s ability to evict a renter for failure to pay total rents (renters are required to pay something, whatever they can) during the pandemic, essentially allowing these marginal unemployed individuals and families to stay in their housing rent-free. But those days are coming to an end as the moratorium on eviction expires at the end of the year. Then what?

There is some mortgage relief for landlords if they get in trouble for non-rent-payers. They can skip mortgage payments and have them put on the back end of their mortgages without penalty. Even so,

Eviction and Homeless Crisis

With 22 million Americans who have lost their jobs, and 70 percent of them have no job to return to, what will happen when we witness the largest eviction event in history and 40 million people are potentially homeless?

Look for Jobs Online While There’s Still Time

Granted, some of these displaced workers have found their way back into the workforce by securing telecommuting work from home jobs online and they have made themselves bulletproof from the coming housing, eviction, and ensuing homelessness crisis of 2021.

And there’s still time for you, or someone you know, to start to look for some of these telecommuting employment arrangements that are available right now, as this is the season to find jobs online.

 

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How to Successfully Work from Home

In today’s new work-world, telecommuting, online jobs, and working from home are the new standard of doing business every day in the United States. If you haven’t already, it’s a good time to get up to speed and learn how to successfully work from home if you want to be a part of this new economy. Here are 7 ways to be successful in your in-home endeavor and to prevent getting burned out by doing so.

7 Ways to Successfully Work from Home

1 – Workspace

While working in your pajamas in your bed in front of the TV with an espresso machine on the nightstand might seem like a great plan. It’s a good idea not to work where you sleep (or regularly perform any other activities). Carve out a space you can designate as your workspace and make this the place where you perform all your work duties. Even if you live in a small apartment, you can still carve out a niche to call your office. Try to make your space distraction-free, and face a wall while you work, instead of an opened window, television, or entertainment center. Fell free to decorate your space, just as you might your cubicle or office space and have your office tools handy as well.

2 – Routine

Many jobs online can be extremely flexible in allowing you to adjust your work hours to what suits you best. This can be problematic when you put off some work to make time for other things, then find yourself cramming in streams of long hours at the end of the week to make up for it. Stick to a schedule and schedule as much of the rest of your life as you can.

Take breaks and eat at the same times, get up, get ready, and start your workdays at the same time(s) as well, if you can. This regular continuity will keep you on top of your game and prevent your work activities from spilling over into your private life, when there is little or no physical separation.

3 – Boundaries

Separation is the key. By setting boundaries you can create a sense of physical separation even if there is none. If you share your home with other people, like your family or roommates, make sure you let them know that when you’re in your room with the door closed, at your workstation (which could be as simple as a TV tray facing the wall), this means you are working, and you should not be disturbed or interrupted when you are in your home-working-space.

Also, set boundaries for family and friends, who may not have as much respect for your telecommuting status. At first, when your friends and family find out that you’re working from home, all they really get is the fact that you’re at home. That normally might mean that you are available to interact or entertain them. Set clear boundaries, and make them aware of your break times, so that they can phone you or “do lunch” during your regularly scheduled lunch break time.

4 – Me Time

You may already realize that no one can really look after your best interests than yourself. So, it’s up to you to find ways to practice self-care within the confines of your life as a teleworker or as you are working online jobs.

Make certain to make space for “me time” during your work week. Do a hobby, take a walk in the park, play a sport, take a luxurious bath, get a massage, etc. Taking time out for you can greatly expand your ability to maintain a heightened state of peak performance. Often, your best ideas about how to increase your performance come when you are engaged in self-care, whatever that means for you.

5 – Exercise

If your “me time” doesn’t include exercise, you should make some additional time during your workweek for a bit of aerobic activity. If the gym is not open, you can ride a bike, run around the block, get on the treadmill (if you have one), jump on a trampoline (could be a mini trampoline) to music, or put in an aerobic workout DVD and be sure to follow along (not just watch it).

A bit of regular aerobic exercise is good for increasing brain power, physiological metabolism, health status, immunity, and overall peak performance.

6 – Off-time

The best way to assure you’re successfully working from home is to not work when you’re not working. When your office is in your home, its easy to be lured back into your home workstation because something just occurred to you. The next thing you know, you’ve been working for three hours, and your chance to have quality time for you, your family, or friends has quickly slipped away. Don’t do it.

When something occurs to you, jot it down on a note, just as you would had you thought of something at home back when you had to commute to and from the office, only now you can leave the note on your workstation, then get back to it when your routine say it’s time to work.

7 – Backup

Have a backup plan and resources on standby. If you’re feeling stressed about working from home, telecommuting, or working online jobs, have a list of places you can go, calls you can make, and take advantage of services that are readily available.

Thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, many resources are available online or via cell phone. Take advantage of them and don’t fall victim to work from home burnout.

Have your list of backup resources ready before you need them.

 

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Silicon Valley Workers Telecommute as Jobs Move Online

Following the COVID-19 lockdown, many workers were forced to telecommute and work from home to help keep Silicon Valley’s mainstays afloat. While many tech giants were already supporting telecommuting as their regular way of conducting business, others were forced to adopt methods to accommodate the Silicon Valley workers’ telecommute as jobs move online.

As inconvenient to the tech industry as the pandemic was, the environment began to repair itself from many years of abuse caused by the industry’s commute. This is being witnessed throughout the earth, as the world heals itself during these trying times.

The businesses, like Apple, were shocked at the nearly 20% increase in productivity of workers who were able to take their former office jobs to their homes, and as many businesses have already noted, this is a huge incentive to promote telecommuting and working from home, as opposed to having to bear the added overhead costs associated with maintaining a group culture at a physical location.

Silicon Valley’s Bay Area Transportation Department says, the impact on the environment has been so spectacular, that they are launching a program that will mandate that San Francisco area businesses will be required to maintain 60 percent of their workforce as telecommuting and working from home.

While this is good news for reducing the cost of doing business in the San Francisco Bay Area, there is an entire infrastructure sub-industry in place which supports the pre-pandemic commuting workforce that is at risk of crumbling.

Already, many of the restaurants who rely on the former commuting workforce to support their endeavors, without the means to support themselves through the COVID-19 lockdown, have closed their doors without the intention or the ability to reopen after restrictions are lifted.

Many businesses and transit agencies which depend on workers who commute to and from work are being lost, possibly never to return.

Companies like Google are joining the ranks of others such as Facebook, Twitter, and Square to adopt and continue to embrace the work-at-home model as part of their method of operations in the foreseeable future. In fact, Twitter and Square are leading the pack by not caring that their employees ever return to work. They are perfectly content with the new work from home model.

This is good news for Silicon Valley workers who live and work in one of the most expensive areas to live in the USA. For them, the commute is expensive and reduces their overall quality of life. Some live far enough away from the core of the Bay Area to reduce their monthly overhead costs of having to pay high rental fees or mortgage payments.

And for those workers who were willing to pay exorbitant rental rates and mortgage payments to stay close to work? They are rethinking their strategy. Many are looking to relocate outside the area or are putting their homes up for sale to move altogether. While it may have relatively easy to sell a home in the pre-pandemic Bay Area, many listings are not being seen, for at present many people are giving pause to the idea of moving into prime real estate in San Francisco.

A two-hour commute to and from work is considered an average commute. That’s four hours a day of your life lost forever, driving to and from work.

Telecommuting and moving your job online is a highly advantageous method of increasing your quality of life, especially if you’re balancing living and working in Silicon Valley.

As we see this trend emerging from California’s Frisco Bay, this is a foreshadowing of things to come for many, if not all areas of the United States.

Will you be ready for the change?

 

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Telecommute as Jobs Move Online Post COVID-19 Pandemic

The world is rapidly changing and you are charged with the task of adapting to this reality that is altering the way we do business, the way we live and work, more from home than ever before thanks to the COVID pandemic, but it’s more than that.

Government agencies have been running on minimal capacity with limited resources, with many federal, state, and municipal employees downsized, furloughed, or forced to work from home or telecommute. While the idea of having to telecommute as an alternative to losing your job altogether, it made sense to move your job online, which felt like punishment at first due to the coronavirus.

Then something unexpected happened; those who were forced to work from home rather than commute to and from their respective offices, liked it. Not only did they regain the time spent getting to and from work, but they had more flexibility during their work hours at home.

And the employers liked it. Employee productivity shot up a surprising 18% and the cost of doing business was reduced dramatically. So impressive are these results, that there is an underlying intention that after the pandemic restrictions are lifted

The way we conduct business will change forever.

Agencies are already preparing to cancel their leases for office space, cutting all extraneous expenses. No rent, no lights, heating, cooling, cleaning, maintenance, all gone, and the employees are more effective working from home.

This is the future of how we conduct business in the United States and possibly the world.

This new format for conducting business from home or telecommuting has affected nearly every form of business, as we are forced to conduct business online, via phone, and deliver goods and services by other means than having customers visit a traditional retail establishment.

It is more important for businesses to quickly adapt to this new migration to conducting business online as soon as possible, and for those who do not, they may not be able to survive this metamorphosis.

Nearly every type of business is affected. Even labor-intensive businesses, much of the administrative and management staff can opt out of work-related and telecommute, increasing their efficacy and reducing unnecessary costs and overhead.

But this means changing the way we live, as jobs move from brick and mortar to our homes.

Many people are not working now, and when you are able to go back to work, there’s a good chance that the jobs that will be available are going to be… You guessed it:

Telecommuting and Jobs Online

This is the nature of the new world which is emerging from the rubble of the COVID-19 pandemic in America, and possibly the world.

Will you be ready?

The time is now to start carving out a place in your home where you can work uninterrupted while integrating into this new normal.

A way to access the Internet is of vital importance, and while the world is shifting into this new direction new methods of making access available to the World Wide Web will be critical. We are already seeing this in school children who are having to attend school online.

We are frantically trying to make the Internet available to all including underdeveloped areas and underprivileged children who would not otherwise have the necessary equipment or connectivity to participate in school online.

Buckle up and get ready for an entirely new future outlook, compliments to 2020.