Ontario job seekers increasingly looking for work in other provinces: Indeed

A brand new report says Ontario job seekers are more and more searching for work in different provinces, particularly these searching for jobs in remote-friendly sectors like tech.

The job search firm says within the second half of 2022, 6.1 per cent of clicks on Canadian job postings by Ontario-based job seekers had been for positions in different provinces.

That’s an nearly 50 per cent improve from the second half of 2019, earlier than the COVID-19 pandemic upended the labour market.

Indeed says whereas curiosity in transferring to British Columbia and Nova Scotia spiked firstly of the pandemic, Alberta has led progress in clicks from Ontario job seekers ever since.

The progress in outbound curiosity from Ontario has been notably sturdy in remote-friendly jobs like tech and advertising and marketing.

Indeed says this development exhibits not solely a rising curiosity in transferring outdoors of Ontario, which can also be mirrored in Statistics Canada migration knowledge, however it additionally highlights the pandemic’s impact on distant work, increasing the geographic scope of white-collar job searches.

This report by The Canadian Press was first printed Jan. 31, 2023.