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Businesses and their staff can decide on the benefits of flexible hours better than any politician

For better or worse, the way we work has changed. Eric Brynjolfsson and Nick Bloom on how to navigate a successful return to the office.

Най-голямата трайна промяна на икономическата география след Covid е свързана с това как и къде работим

The Covid-19 pandemic and associated recession have had dramatically different effects across industries, with some, including large parts of the leisure and hospitality sector, truly devastated and others, like much of the manufacturing sector, able to recover quite quickly. This has led some analysts to describe the pandemic as a reallocation shock, requiring substantial movement of labor across industries.[ 1] Such a process likely requires substantial time, during which the natural rate of unemployment may be elevated. In this Chicago Fed Letter, we consider two questions: First, has th...

You’re Gonna Miss Zoom When It’s Gone For people like me, who have social anxiety, videoconferencing can be easier than in-person interactions. Olga Khazan , If there’s a villain of the pandemic, other than COVID-19, it’s probably Zoom. The videochatting platform is making people tired, it’s making people awkward, and it’s making people sick of their own faces. Zoom is such a shoddy substitute for real life that, according to one survey, nearly one in five workers has illicitly met up in person with colleagues to discuss work. And in another poll, a th...