As remote work grows in scale and scope, data from LinkedIn indicates that people are increasingly seeking connections outside their own metro areas, according to Quartz.  The percentage of those whose connections are outside their metro areas has grown to 60 percent as of July, up from 57.5 percent last year. LinkedIn believes this is reflective of the rising number of telecommuting workers, as the largest rise in nonlocal connections has been in people living in small and midsize cities, of between 400,000 and 1.5 million people, such as Richmond, Va.; Scranton, Pa.; or Stockton, Calif. This change implies that people are increasingly looking for jobs that generally had been available only in major metro areas, but now have opened up due to the rising number of firms comfortable with remote workers. Quartz noted that this change has occurred despite a recent policy change from the social networking site to encourage more local connections.