Is It Safe to Work With Your Laptop on Your Lap?
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A year ago, the number of Americans working from home stood at just under five million. These days, it’s up around 70 million. That’s hard to process. We moved almost half the nation’s workforce home in a matter of months. And while some still treat it like a temporary measure water cooler chat now is just Zoom riffs on the question “When do you think we’re going back?” any shift
that seismic comes with a measure of permanence.
Stanford economist Nicholas Bloom expects the WFH era to outlive the reign of COVID-19. One survey, which he conducted with the Atlanta Federal Reserve and the University of Chicago, found that even after the pandemic dust settles, most top firms plan to keep employees home one to three days a week. That will change the world. Corporations will reconsider the value of a downtown high-rise. Workers without fast home internet will be left behi