Commentary The exodus from big cities and blue states has become a familiar theme over the past couple of years, with COVID restrictions, rising crime, and ruinous costs prompting a significant migration of people and businesses out of urban areas and into suburbs, small towns, and booming Republican-leaning states. Paradoxically, though, government data indicates that…
Americans Aren’t as Mobile as You Think
July 22, 2022
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How Remote Work Is Hurting America’s Downtowns
July 12, 2022
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News Analysis Office buildings continue to sit mostly empty in major cities across the United States, jeopardizing the future of America’s downtowns more than two years after the COVID-19 pandemic prompted the mass adoption of remote work. Data from Kastle Systems, a provider of access control systems for thousands of office buildings, shows that office…
Work-From-Home to Be a Legal Right in This European Country
Lawmakers in the Netherlands have moved to make work-from-home a legal right, a move that would make the European country one of the first in the world to enshrine remote work flexibility in law. The Dutch Parliament approved the measure earlier this week, per Bloomberg, with the legislation now heading to the Senate for final…
Information Workers Operating Remotely Less Productive Over Long Term, Study Claims
Information workers doing their job remotely have been found to be less productive over the long term, according to a study on staff at Microsoft. Whilst the study’s authors observed a productivity increase in the short-term immediately after companies made a switch from in-office to working remotely, work hours increased over a prolonged period, which…
Remote Work Needs to End
Commentary America needs to go back to work. Elon Musk ordered Tesla employees back to the office full time last week. Tesla will “create and actually manufacture the most exciting and meaningful products of any company on Earth,” Musk said. “This will not happen by phoning it in.” Bravo to Musk for rebuffing the fairy…
How Many Remote Workers Only Pretend to Work?
Elon Musk keeps making headlines for saying true things that no one else seems willing to say. Last week, he wrote a memo to all Tesla employees ordering them all back to the office, 40 hour per week, period. And it must be the real office, not some WeWork-like outpost of office expats sipping lattes…
Only 8 Percent of Manhattan Office Employees Are Back in the Workplace Full Time: Study
Just 8 percent of Manhattan office workers have returned to the office five days a week for in-person work, according to data published on May 9 by the nonprofit organization Partnership for New York City. Partnership for New York City, a business advocacy group, surveyed more than 160 major employers in the Manhattan borough of New York City from…
More Than Half of Canadian Office Workers Want to Keep Working Remotely: Survey
With the gradual relaxation of COVID-19 measures, a majority of Canadian office workers say they want to keep their remote work pattern, a new survey shows. More than half of 1,595 Canadian officer workers say that working mostly or entirely remote is their ideal work scenario, compared to one in eight (12 percent) who prefer…
Google Employees Told to Come Back to Offices, Vaccinated Don’t Need to Wear Masks
March 3, 2022
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Google is asking employees in the United States, Asia-Pacific, and the UK to return back to offices for three days per week beginning April 4, marking the end of the company’s full-time remote working option instituted during the pandemic and a transition toward hybrid work. “Google’s approach to the hybrid work week was inspired by…
Blue Collar Workers Considering Career Changes, Opt for Safer Work Options
As the pandemic loomed, the world’s population went under lockdown and most people started working from homes but this trend has not been applicable to a majority of workers who could not afford that privilege—the blue-collar employees. After seeing their office-going counterparts simply shifting their work stations and continuing to work remotely, sitting in the…
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