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Well-educated and culturally rich employees will quit jobs if work from home not option
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Counted for dead. the first was after the tragic attack on the twin towers, the second was in 2008. i think the pundits got this wrong. wealthier people and more advantaged people and people with families decamped cities temporarily. but i think the big effect, fareed, and you hinted at this in the question, is not where people are going to live. i think that looks pretty similar -- not the same, but similar to how it did pre-pandemic -- how they worked and where they work is going to change, and i think remote work is a much bigger deal than people thought. the best data we have says remote w...
Course, now. i think the pundits got this wrong. as people have done going back to the plagues in europe, wealthier people and more advantaged people and people with families decamped cities temporarily. but i think the big effect, fareed, and you hinted at this in the question, is not where people are going to live. i think that looks pretty similar -- not the same, but similar to how it did pre-pandemic -- how they worked and where they work is going to change, and i think remote work is a much bigger deal than people thought. the best data we have says remote work is going to go from less t...