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Offices aren’t quite sure how to approach bringing back employees, especially now that so many jobs can be done from home in pajamas.

A Over the past few weeks, I’ve spoken with managers and employees about returning to the workplace. Behind every person’s individual concern is one overarching, almost philosophical conundrum: What’s the point of the office? “That’s the right question,” says Alexandra Samuel, co-author of “Remote, Inc.” “And any organization that isn’t asking that question is going to run into trouble because every employee’s thinking it.” It’s understandable. People worked from home — once derided as “shirking from home” — for a year, and the sky didn’t fall. In fact...

Image In the past few weeks, 22 states have announced they would end federal pandemic unemployment benefits, which pay recipients $300 on top of state benefits and are scheduled to run into September. (New Hampshire is the latest.) Many of the states’ governors, all Republicans, made statements similar to that of Gov. Henry McMaster of South Carolina, who said the expanded benefits are “incentivizing and paying workers to stay at home rather than encouraging them to return to the workplace.” The U.S. Chamber of Commerce said the same. Businesses of all types report that they are having ...

What do we like about working from home? 7 Mar, 2021 11:44 PM 6 minutes to read The past year has shown us there's positives and negatives to working from home. Photo /123RF The past year has shown us there's positives and negatives to working from home. Photo /123RF Harvard Business Review Evaluating the pros and cons. Nearly a year into working from home because of Covid-19 closures, each day seems exactly like the one before. I wake up at 7am, prep meals, help my son with online school, work alone in a makeshift office, exercise and finally drop into bed exhausted. Person...