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Neodesha, Kan. may be a small town with a population of just over 2,000 residents, but it has big aspirations to become the prime destination for the remote workforce — and its residents and business leaders are committed to making it possible.
“We viewed the pandemic as an opportunity,” says Devin Johnson, the mayor of Neodesha and a native of the area. “A lot of people realized that the city wasn’t everything it’s cracked up to be when they fled from COVID.”
Paola Peralta is an Associate Editor at Employee Benefit News and has been with the team for five years. She is a proud UCF journalism graduate who got her start through a Dow Jones News Fund … Read full bio
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