From Bend, Oregon to Tampa: How these 10 U.S. cities became remote work hotspots

Certain cities are emerging as remote work hotspots faster than others. Bend, Oregon topped LinkedIn's list for the small U.S. cities where remote work is the most popular; of all the job applications that people from Bend are submitting on LinkedIn, 41.8% are for remote jobs.

These small cities have the highest proportion of remote work applications:

1. Bend, Oregon: 41.8%
2. Asheville, North Carolina: 38.7%
3. Wilmington, Delaware: 35.9%
4. Johnson City, Tennessee: 35.2%
5. Eugene, Oregon: 34.9%

"We're seeing booming interest across industries in remote work, a lot of people want that flexibility as the pandemic continues, and companies are going to go where the workers are," George Anders, a senior editor at LinkedIn, tells CNBC Make It . "We've also discovered that the kind of tools we're using for remote work, like Zoom and Slack, make more remote jobs possible, so remote work has ended up being sustainable and productive."