San Francisco exodus as tech giants lean in to remote work in Covid-19 era


Kyala Brown (right) and her husband Danny Benjamin have lunch with their sons Levi Benjamin-Brown, 5, and Luca Benjamin-Brown, 2, at their new home in El Cerrito, California. — AFP

Real estate agent Kilby Stenkamp sees moving vans on San Francisco streets where she used to see building cranes and tech company hipsters.

A work-from-home trend kicked into overdrive by the pandemic is disrupting a city long a mecca for tech talent.

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