Media
The Working From Home Research Project and the Survey of Working Arrangements and Attitudes have received significant media interest, featuring in outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, NPR, PBS, Economist, Financial Times, the Times – to name a few
2024
Washington Post: Who will follow Amazon back into the office?, September 2024
CNBC: It’s the ‘year of the mandate’ at offices, but hybrid and remote work aren’t dying, September 2024
SF Chronicle: Here’s how work-from-home rates are changing in S.F., September 2024
Lemonde: In the US, remote workers are the first to go when companies downsize, September 2024
Marketwatch: The job market is getting tougher for workers — but they may be gaining in the battle over remote work, September 2024
Handelsblatt: Stanford-Ökonom erklärt, wie Manager Remote Work gut umsetzen, September 2024
Washington Post: How technological shifts are creating a new era of work, September 2024
Inc.com: Companies such as PwC are now tracking employee location to enforce RTO, September 2024
The Financial Times: Why you should journal about your work life, September 2024
The Financial Times: Transcript: Who ate my lunch (hour)?, September 2024
Time: Six Experts on What We’ve Learned about Returning to the Office, September 2024
Lexpress: Au travail, la lente mort de la traditionnelle pause déjeuner, September 2024
The Guardian: London workers slower to return to office than New York or Paris, study says, September 2024
The Wall Street Journal: Rise of the Pint-Size Startup Is Reshaping the U.S. Economy, September 2024
Financial Times: London slower to return to office than New York and Paris, September 2024
Business Insider: Dads are work-from-home winnders – but ditching the office has downsides, August 2024
The Wall Street Journal: Long Covid Knocked a Million Americans Off Their Career Paths, August 2024
NBC: Why remote work has staying power: It’s ‘still kicking,’ economist says, August 2024
Reuters: Four tips to make the most of hybrid work, August 2024
Fortune: More CEOs are enjoying the remote-work life—but employees resent it, August 2024
The Economist: Why companies get inflation wrong, August 2024
Fortune: Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt apologizes for remote-work rant against old employer, August 2024
Financial Times: Dating apps but for office sharing?, August 2024
Handelsblatt: Zu viel Homeoffice verringert die Karrierechancen, July 2024
National Geographic: America is still dealing with the pandemic’s scars, psychologists say, July 2024
South China Morning Post: CEOs in Hong Kong turn to hybrid work model to retain talent, boost efficiency, July 2024
US News: 2024-2029 Housing Market Predictions, July 2024
The Herald: You’ll find a better work-life balance at Regus, July 2024
Fortune: Amazon is cracking down on RTO holdouts and ‘speaking directly’ to employees who haven’t spent enough time in the office, July 2024
NPR: Since the pandemic, a study shows the number of super commuters has increased, July 2024
The Guardian: ‘The new normal’: work from home is here to stay, US data shows, July 2024
Handelsblatt: Stanford-Ökonom zeigt großen Nachteil von Remote Work auf, July 2024
Marketplace: Work from home rates have reached a new normal, June 2024
Fortune: Nearly half of Dell’s full-time workforce in the U.S. has rejected returning to the office. They’d rather work from home than get promoted, June 2024
Fast Company: Hybrid work really is effective, according to new research, June 2024
The Wall Street Journal: The Power of Finding the Sweet Spot of Hybrid Work, June 2024
Express: New study blasts working from home employees as it makes one key finding, June 2024
Daily Mail: WFH does not make you more productive, June 2024
The Wall Street Journal: Working at Home Helped Whip Inflation, June 2024
The Times: The results are in — partial WFH ‘boosts job satisfaction’, June 2024
The Financial Times: Invested in the WFH argument? Home in on the evidence, June 2024
The Dallas Morning News: Dallas drivers are putting in more miles to get to work, June 2024
The Hill: Hybrid schedule more beneficial than fully in-office work, June 2024
Fortune: Major study from Stanford workplace guru reveals that hybrid work cuts attrition by 33% and has no negative impact on getting promoted, June 2024
The Guardian: Hybrid working makes employees happier, healthier and more productive, study shows, June 2024
CNBC: ‘Win-win-win’: Three-day hybrid work week is a success, largest study to date published in Nature says, June 2024
Marketwatch: What Wells Fargo’s ‘mouse-jiggler’ scandal says about the problem with work right now, June 2024
The Wall Street Journal: A Killer Golf Swing Is a Hot Job Skill Now, June 2024
Forbes: This new hybrid work study could help reconcile the war over work from home, June 2024
CNBC: Why a five-day return to office is unlikely, Stanford economist says, June 2024
NBC: Does it take you over an hour to get to work? Stanford study looks at ‘super commuters’, June 2024
Daily Mail: Rise of the super commuter, June 2024
INC: Hybrid Work Is Creating More Super Commuters, June 2024
Marketplace: The rise of the super commuters, June 2024
The Wall Street Journal: America’s Commute to Work Is Getting Longer and Longer, June 2024
The Atlantic: Who Really Benefits From the Great Remote-Work Experiment?, June 2024
CBS News: Are you spending more money shopping online? Remote work could be to blame., May 2024
New York Post: Everyone has been secretly doing this while on the job — and spending mega money, May 2024
The Wall Street Journal: We’re Spending Billions on This Work-From-Home Indulgence, May 2024
Inc: 1 in 3 Top Execs Plan to Quit Over Return-to-Office Mandates, May 2024
SF Chronicle: ‘Doom, but not loop’: Has San Francisco dodged the worst-case scenario?, May 2024
Inc: The Top 3 Reasons Why Workers Come Into the Office, May 2024
Forbes: Consider Your Commute To Work During A Job Search, May 2024
The Economist: Working from home and the US-Europe divide, May 2024
The Financial Times: Is remote work good for women?, May 2024
PBS News Hour: The benefits of a 4-day workweek, according to employers, May 2024
The Wall Street Journal: The British Are Coming for Your White-Collar Job, April 2024
Marketplace: Report says remote workers are getting little training on best practices, April 2024
MSNBC: The Future of Remote Work, March 2024
The Wall Street Journal: We’re Working Less on Fridays Than We Used to, and That’s OK, March 2024
The Wall Street Journal: Working From Home Could Be Great—With These New Features, March 2024
Fortune: Stanford economist says forcing people back to the office full time is a costly mistake: ‘They want to learn, they want to socialize—they just don’t want to go in five days a week’, March 2024
The New York Times: Why School Absences Have ‘Exploded’ Almost Everywhere, March 2024
The Wall Street Journal: They Chose to Take a Pay Cut—and Say They’re Happier, March 2024
SF Chronicle: S.F. workers are living increasingly far from the office. Map shows where they’ve moved, March 2024
The New York Times: The ZIP Code Shift: Why Many Americans No Longer Live Where They Work, March 2024
The Financial Times: Americans are still sweeter on stuff than before the pandemic. How long can it last?, March 2024
INC: Workers Now Live Farther From the Office, March 2024
The Financial Times: The banks on the frontline of the remote working battle, March 2024
The San Francisco Chronicle: The return to office has stagnated. Here’s what that means for the future of Bay Area housing prices, March 2024
Time: No Recession? Thank Women, March 2024
The New York Times: Are We in a Productivity Boom? For Clues, Look to 1994, February 2024
The Financial Times: Work from home if you want but don’t expect a pay rise, February 2024
INC: CEOs and Data Agree: If Workers Want a Promotion, They Have to Go Into the Office at Least 4 Days a Week, February 2024
Business Insider: Companies forcing workers to come back to the office are creating a ‘massive disruption’ in their lives, workplace expert says, February 2024
The Financial Times: The home-working revolution is harming younger workers, February 2024
The WSJ: The Companies Calling Workers Back to the Office Five Days a Week, January 2024
The Guardian: Bank of America sends warning letters to employees not going into offices, January 2024
The Telegraph: What working from home does to your career – and bank balance, January 2024
CNBC: Employers and workers are at odds over work-life balance — here’s who is winning, January 2024
Forbes: A ‘Marauder’s Map” for the Office, January 2024
Business Insider: Stanford economist says workers should go to the office at least 3 days a week if they want to compete for a promotion, January 2024
The Wall Street Journal: Remote Workers Are Losing Out on Promotions, New Data Shows, January 2024
LA Times: Remote workers actually aren’t more productive. Will bosses finally call them back in this year?, January 2024
2023
CNN: What to expect at work in 2024, December 2023
USA Today: Out of office? Not likely. More than half of Americans worked while on vacation in 2023, December 2023
Bloomberg: Work Shift: Five Things We Learned In 2023, December 2023
The Telegraph: Employers must own up to their liability in Britain’s sick problem, December 2023
USA Today: Wayfair CEO Niraj Shah tells employees to ‘work longer hours’ in year-end email, December 2023
The Wall Street Journal: We Own More Cars Than Ever. So Why Are We Driving Less?, December 2023
Fortune: 2023: The year of the workplace gridlock, where nothing changed and nobody was happy, December 2023
CNN: Wayfair CEO: Employees need to work longer hours, December 2023
USA Today: 2023 was the year return-to-office died. Experts share remote-work trends expected in 2024, December 2023
Fortune: Stressed-out employees are multitasking to survive virtual meetings–and bosses hate it, December 2023
New York Post: I moved to Tulsa for $10,000, December 2023
The Wall Street Journal: Return-to-Office Mandates Are a Disaster for Working Mothers, December 2023
The Economist: Brexit? Hah! Lockdowns? Shrug! Can nothing stop London?, December 2023
BBC: The ‘vibecession’ driving holiday mass layoffs, December 2023
Business Insider: Fully remote workers are at the highest risk of being replaced by AI, a Stanford professor says, December 2023
The New York Times: TikTok , December 2023
The Wall Street Journal: The Biggest Winners and Losers From the Work-From-Home Revolution, December 2023
CNBC: Full return to office isn’t the only work model dying. So is fully remote, December 2023
Fortune: American workers keep proving they don’t need to return to the office to be productive. A Big Four economist pinpoints 4 factors driving the productivity explosion, December 2023
Fortune: In-person work rates will remain ‘flat as a pancake’ until 2026, when WFH will officially dominate, says remote work guru Nick Bloom, November 2023
CNBC: Return to office is ‘dead,’ Stanford economist says. Here’s why, November 2023
Bloomberg: RTO? WFH? Why Post-Covid Work Norms Are So Confusing, November 2023, November 2023
Fortune: Citadel CEO Ken Griffin says remote work has created a ‘wild card’ workplace that makes it easier to fire people, November 2023
The New York Times: Is Remote Work the Answer to Women’s Prayers, or a New ‘Mommy Track’?, November 2023
Bloomberg: Why Your Office Space Continues to Shrink, November 2023
Forbes: Companies With Flexible Remote Work Policies Outperform On Revenue Growth: Report, November 2023
CNBC: Why the golden age of remote work may be coming to an end, November 2023
INC: Reimagining Workplace Flexibility in the Era of Return-to-office Mandates, November 2023
Fortune: Remote work guru Nick Bloom thinks we’ll never go back to the office full-time—but ‘maintaining discipline is important’, November 2023
CNN: When it comes to remote work, Stephen Schwarzman doesn’t get it, November 2023
Fortune: The alleged crime epidemic in places like San Francisco causing stores to flee may actually just be bad management, investment bank suggests, November 2023
CBS News: Working it out: Is hybrid the future of work?, November 2023
Financial Times: Performance reviews are awful yet unstoppable, October 2023
The Economist: How to be a better boss, October 2023
The Economist: Pity the modern manager—burnt-out, distracted and overloaded, October 2023
Washington Post: Amazon Managers Should Manage More, Take Attendance Less, October 2023
Fortune: CEOs are secretly plotting against hybrid work and pushing for a 5-day office return by 2026, October 2023
The New York Times: The Five-Day Office Week Is Dead, October 2023
USA Today: How much is that remote job worth to you? Americans will part with pay to work from home, October 2023
The New York Times: Here’s What We Do and Don’t Know About the Effects of Remote Work, October 2023
Business Insider: 3 unique ways employees and companies are making 4-day workweeks happen, October 2023
The New York Times: Vaults, Ducts, Kitchens: Everything Must Go When a Company Moves Out, October 2023
Bloomberg: Remote Work Conference Rekindles Productivity Debate, October 2023
The Atlantic: One Big Benefit of Remote Work, September 2023
Washington Post: Some Banks Are Actually Sticking With WFH, September 2023
The New York Times: People in Their 20s Aren’t Supposed to Be This Unhappy, September 2023
The Wall Street Journal: How a Four-Day Workweek Actually Works, From the Companies Pulling It Off, September 2023
Financial Times: Bosses won’t like it but WFH is a happier way to work, September 223
Fortune: Bosses and workers still can’t agree on whether the commute is part of the work day, and it’s creating a $578 billion productivity problem, September 2023
Boston Globe: As return-to-office debate continues, Boston employers say this could be as returned as it gets, September 2023
Time: Where a Remote Employee Lives Shouldn’t Affect Their Pay, September 2023
Fortune: Thanks to A.I., workers are struggling with “FOBO”—fear of being obsolete, September 2023
The New York Times: Should We Really Be Texting for Work?, September 2023
Financial Times: Employers and staff seek truce on office working, September 2023
Financial Times: A round of golf on a Wednesday afternoon? The new rules of WFH are up for debate, September 2023
Business Insider: Meet the typical remote worker, who makes good money, runs errands during the day, and will take a pay cut to avoid RTO, September 2023
Fortune: CEOs are gambling that pandemics are over with their remote-work policies, September 2023
The Mercury News: Will business travel to the Bay Area bounce back to pre-COVID levels? Maybe not, September 2023
The New York Times: Where in the World Are People Back in the Office?, September 2023
CNN: The state of return-to-office policies: a post-Labor Day reset?, September 2023
The Atlantic: The other work remote workers get done, September 2023
Business Insider: You’re more productive in the office, say elite CEOs. Data seems to back them up., September 2023
The Times: From docking bonuses to desk checking: the WFH clampdown begins, September 2023
Fortune: WFH guru Nick Bloom says A.I. is already coming for fully remote jobs like call centers and data entry: ‘This stuff is at real risk’, August 2023
Financial Times: Are Fridays dead?, August 2023
Yahoo Finance: Move Over, San Francisco: The Suburbs of Silicon Valley Are Calling, August 2023
CBS News: San Francisco neighborhoods hosting smaller shared spaces for remote work, August 2023
The Economist: Nicholas Bloom predicts a working-from-home Nike swoosh, August 2023
The Times: Enticing workers back to the office can only help business, August 2023
Bloomberg: Back to the office or work from home?, August 2023
The Economist: How to get the most out of mentoring, August 2023
Business Insider: Return-to-office orders look like a way for elite, work-obsessed CEOs to grab power back from employees, August 2023
Business Insider: Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon hates remote work. Now managers are cracking the whip on returning to the office., August 2023
Inc.: Companies That Offer Flexible Working Are Hiring Twice as Fast as Full-Time In-Office Firms, New Report Finds, August 2023
Fortune: Saturday is the new Friday in the 6-day workweek for hybrid workers. They’re relaxing more during the week, but paying for it on the weekend, August 2023
The Guardian: ‘The office is for socializing’: how work from home has revolutionized work, August 2023
Forbes: The workplace has finally reached a new normal, says the guru of remote work: Return to office data is as ‘flat as a pancake’, August 2023
Forbes: White-Collar Workers Face Hyperspecialization, Fewer Job Openings And Threats To Their Job Security, August 2023
Business Insider: People would rather work anywhere but the office — including their gyms, August 2023
The Guardian: ‘Never again’: is Britain finally ready to return to the office?, August 2023
WSJ Marketplace: Millions of Americans are Zooming all wrong, August 2023
Fortune: A real estate billionaire said Fridays are ‘dead forever’ for offices and remote work guru Nick Bloom says he’s right—it’s part of a new 3-part week, August 2023
Financial Times: ‘Five days? No way’: The great office stand-off, August 2023
The Washington Post: Zoom, a champion of remote work, calls employees back to office, August 2023
CNN: Zoom orders some employees back to the office, August 2023
Mercury News: Even San Jose-based Zoom is making its staff return to the office, August 2023
CNBC: Remote or hybrid work is here to stay: Bauke Group president, August 2023
SF Chronicle: Pandemic mainstay Zoom calls workers back to office — but for less than half the week, August, 2023
The New York Times: Even Zoom Is Making People Return to the Office, August 2023
The Times: Time to whoosh back to the office, Zoom tells its staff, August 2023
The Wall Street Journal: Need to Hire Workers in a Hot Job Market? Let Them Do Some Remote Work, August 2023
Fortune: Grindr retaliated against employees for trying to unionize by forcing them back to the office, labor complaint alleges, August 2023
Fortune: Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg might be right: Remote workers are less productive, new research finds, August 2023
The Wall Street Journal: Workers to Employers: We’re Just Not That Into You, August 2023
NPR: When remote work works and when it doesn’t, August 2023
Fortune: Remote work is a lot more popular in English-speaking countries. Even the experts can’t figure out why, August 2023
Financial Times: Working from home is full of surprises, July 2023
USA Today: Work from home as a drive-thru employee? How remote blue-collar jobs are catching on, July 2023
The Wall Street Journal: How Workers Really Spend Their Days, July 2023
The New York Times: What’s the Status of Flaunting Your Status?, July 2023
Financial Times: It may not feel like it, but the planet has many reasons to be cheerful, July 2023
Bloomberg: Brits Are Working From Home More Than Rest of Europe, July 2023
The Atlantic: Why the Remote-Work Debate Stays So Heated, July 2023
The Economist: The fight over working from home goes global, July 2023
Business Insider: The RTO push is over. Hybrid work has won out, says nation’s top remote-work expert, July 2023
Fortune: Remote work has increased steadily since the 1960s—and it will likely climb upward for decades, Stanford research finds, July 2023
Fortune: WFH’s staunchest proponents just dropped a bomb: Fully remote workers are officially less productive, July 2023
The Wall Street Journal: Remote Work Sticks for All Kinds of Jobs, July 2023
The Economist: The working-from-home illusion fades, July 2023
The Wall Street Journal: Remote Work Sticks for All Kinds of Jobs, July 2023
CBC: Canada wants to woo ‘digital nomads.’ Can we compete?, July 2023
CNN: Co-working spaces are getting weird, July 2023
The Wall Street Journal: Mondays Are the New Office Fight, June 2023
The Guardian: ‘I feel like I’ve missed out’: has working from home thrown the gen Zs out with the water cooler?, June 2023
Fortune: A whopping 60% of workers are back in the office 5 days a week—but that doesn’t mean what you think it does, June 2023
Bloomberg: Remote Work Pay Cuts Send the Wrong Message, June 2023
Financial Times: Are you doing hybrid wrong?, June 2023
CNN: The job market enters a new phase as the Great Resignation ends, June 2023
Marketwatch: ‘Remote work doesn’t work’: David Sacks, ex-PayPal executive, blasts working from home as ‘lifestyle’, June 2023
CNBC: Remote jobs are moving overseas and to smaller U.S. cities: ‘The same skills for 60% of the cost’, June 2023
Marketwatch: Returning to the office is like getting back with an ex-spouse. It may provide the secret to a happy reunion., June 2023
CNN: Martha Stewart slams work from home as productivity drain, June 2023
The New York Times: Wonking Out: Zooming and the Future of Cities, June 2023
The New York Times: Why Are Remote Corporate Workers Having More Fun? Co-Working Spaces., May 2023
The Wall Street Journal: We Asked Workers Why They’re Not Coming Back to the Office, May 2023
Marketplace: New businesses are popping up in “donuts” of downtowns, May 2023
The New York Times: Office Workers Don’t Hate the Office. They Hate the Commute, May 2023
Financial Times: Homeworking risks holding back London’s economy, report finds, May 2023
The New York Times: Working From Home and Realizing What Matters, May 2023
The Guardian: Staff work in central London offices for 2.3 days a week, study finds, May 2023
The Times: Remote working is probably here to stay, and these are the reasons why, May 2023
Time: Return-to-Office Full Time Is Losing. Hybrid Work Is On the Rise, May 2023
Vox: The “return to the office” won’t save the office, May 2023
Financial Times: US cities must beware the ‘donut effect’, May 2023
CNN: The real reasons stores such as Walmart and Starbucks are closing in big cities, May 2023
The Globe and Mail: The remote work revolution that never took off, May 2023
Business Insider India: Wonder why your rent is so high? Because everyone has decided they want to live alone, May 2023
Daily Mail: Time is money! How working remotely saves the average New York City employee 331 hours a year – while South Dakota staff claw back just 145 hours by forgoing their daily commute, May 2023
New York Post: I retired early from a six-figure job so I wouldn’t have to work remote, May 2023
CNBC: Some remote jobs will still be hot in 5 years, and others ‘might not exist,’ economists say—how to know the difference, May 2023
The Wall Street Journal: The Return to the Office Has Stalled, May 2023
Bloomberg: Best and Worst US Cities for Remote Work Job Openings, May 2023
The Economist: How to two-time your employer: a tech worker’s guide, May 2023
Business Insider: Get a remote job while you still can: More and more companies are calling workers back to the office — or outsourcing to cheaper workers overseas, April 2023
Fortune: Remote work could be why you lose your job. Higher salaries face the greatest risk, April 2023
The New York Times: The R.T.O. Whisperers Have a Plan, April 2023
Bloomberg: People Working in the Office Spend 25% More Time on Career Development, April 2023
Fortune: Gen Z hits surprising adult milestone: working in the office full-time, April 2023
The New York Times: The Silver Linings of a ‘Doom Loop’, April 2023
Bloomberg: Work Shift: How Dodgy Data Cloud the Future of Work, April 2023
CNN: The latest on hybrid work: Who is WFH and who isn’t, April 2023
Fortune: Gen Z is leading the growing pack of workers who want to go to the office more, and they say they’re more productive for it, April 2023
Marketplace: Employers want everyone back in the office — for real this time, April 2023
Fortune: First came the return-to-office policies. Now comes the discipline: How companies are punishing work-from-home holdouts, April 2023
The Washington Post: Half a Million Job Cuts Could Be Just the Start, April 2023
Los Angeles Times: Why remote work is becoming a blue-state privilege, April 2023
Marketplace: Pandemic exodus from big cities was short-lived, April 2023
Marketwatch: People have stopped fleeing cities and are starting to stay put census data shows, April 2023
The New York Times: R.I.P. W.F.H.? Not So Fast (Peter Coy Column), April 2023
The Wall Street Journal: Next Wave of Remote Work Is About Outsourcing Jobs Overseas, April 2023
Bloomberg: Much of UK Lags Behind Major Hubs in Remote-Work Boom, March 2023
The New York Times: Do We Know How Many People Are Working From Home?, March 2023
Fortune: What employees say will get them to return the office, March 2023
Forbes: Why Working From Home Is Here To Stay, March 2023
The Wall Street Journal: Exodus From America’s Big Cities Slowed Last Year, March 2023
Vox: How to save America’s public transit systems from a doom spiral, March 2023
Financial Times: Why five days in the office don’t add up, March 2023
Bloomberg: ‘Zoom Towns’ Exploded in the Work-From-Home Era. Now New Residents Are Facing Layoffs, March 2023
Fortune: Hybrid workers are exercising and sleeping more, reporting better mental health than before the pandemic, March 2023
The Wall Street Journal: Work-From-Home Era Ends for Millions of Americans, March 2023
The New York Times: ‘The Era of Urban Supremacy Is Over’, March 2023
Business Insider: Remote work could help the US make more babies, have affordable housing, and tackle the mental health and climate crises, a Stanford economist says, March 2023
Financial Times: ‘It is not cut-throat like Goldman Sachs’: SVB’s culture in focus, March 2023
The New York Times: Golf at 3 p.m. Thursday? Sure, It’s the Afternoon Fun Economy. March 2023
San Francisco Chronicle: ‘The New Normal is Hybrid,’ March 2023
Business Insider: Remote jobs have some workers feeling like college kids again: They play in the afternoon and work at night, March 2023
Fortune: Remote workers doing more work at night are taking afternoon breaks, and golf courses are among those benefiting, March 2023
Financial Times: From SVB to the BBC: why did no one see the crisis coming? March 2023
San Jose Mercury News: How many people will ride BART through San Jose? The answer could define South Bay transit, but nobody knows, March 2023
Financial Times: How video calls kill creativity, March 2023
The Guardian: ‘Managers are human too’: leaders left lonely by hybrid working, March 2023
Financial Times: Have CEOs lost patience with hybrid working?, March 2023
Bloomberg: Washington Suffers as Federal Employees Work From Home, March 2023
The Wall Street Journal: Women’s Return to the Workforce Piles Momentum on a Hot Economy, March 2023
Bloomberg: Two Out of Three Banks Offer Workers Some Flexibility Despite Office Push, March 2023
Barron’s: Hybrid Work Is the New Norm—and So Are Half-Full Buildings, March 2023
Fortune: Wall Street CEOs like Jamie Dimon talk about how going remote ‘doesn’t work,’ but most banks are actually flexible, March 2023
The Washington Post: How hybrid work changed employee communication and collaboration, March 2023
Fortune: Shark Tank investor Kevin O’Leary says Gen Z has ‘no intention’ of ever coming to the office. He’s almost definitely wrong, March 2023
CNBC: Full-time office work is ‘dead’: 3 labor experts weigh in on the future of remote work, March 2023
Bloomberg: Can’t Give Employees Raises? Add Benefits, March 2023
Business Insider: Forget the ‘death of downtowns’ — we’re about to experience the Big City Renaissance, March 2023
The New York Times: Office Mandates. Pickleball. Beer. What Will Make Hybrid Work Stick? March 2023
New York Post: US corporate workers trail Europe, Asia in return-to-office rate: report, March 2023
Financial Times: Lockdowns are over. WFH isn’t. Why? February 2023
Daily Mail: Restaurants and bars in major cities including New York, LA and DC are still struggling to bring in business on Mondays and Fridays as office workers remain hybrid – and spend up to $4,600 a year LESS near work, February 2023
Forbes: Whitehall, We Have A Labor Problem. Freelancing To The Rescue? February 2023
The New York Times: Trial Run of 4-Day Workweek Wins Converts, February 2023
Fortune: Working from home can save workers thousands a year—here are the average savings in 12 American cities, February 2023
Daily Mail: More than 30% of work was done remotely in January – six times the rate of 2019 – as employees dig in their heels and refuse to return to the office, February 2023
Bloomberg: Your Side Hustle Is Another Sign of a Tight US Job Market, February 2023
The Hill: Nearly 30 percent of work remains remote as workers dig in, February 2023
BBC: Amazon calls staff back to office three days a week, February 2023
The Wall Street Journal: What CEOs Are Getting Wrong About the Future of Work—and How to Make It Right, February 2023
Forbes: New York City Is Losing Out On $12 Billion Annually Because Of Remote Work, February 2023
Fortune: Hybrid work makes people better at their jobs, from commuting to ‘deep work.’ But companies aren’t doing it right, February 2023
CNBC: Hybrid workers earn more than remote and in-person workers, according to new research—here’s why, February 2023
The Washington Post: Should the Bureaucrats Get Back to Their Desks?, February 2023
Bloomberg: Remote Work Is Costing Manhattan More Than $12 Billion a Year, February 2023
The Wall Street Journal: For Remote Workers, These U.S. Cities Are Great Places to Live, February 2023
NBC: New Work From Home Data Shows Disparities, February 2023
Time: As People Return to Offices, It’s Back to Misery for America’s Working Moms, February 2023
BBC: The companies backtracking on flexible work, February 2023
Bloomberg: Side Hustles Are Twice as Common as US Jobs Data Suggest, Survey Finds, February 2023
The Washington Post: America’s offices are now half-full. They may not get much fuller. February 2023
Marketplace: Back to the office … kinda, February 2023
The Wall Street Journal: The Job Market for Remote Workers Is Shrinking, January 2023
Business Insider: Remote work hasn’t actually saved Americans much time — they’re mainly just working more, January 2023
MarketWatch: Commuting takes a big chunk out of the average worker’s day. So what do remote workers do with all that extra time?, January 2023
Fortune: Working from home saves employees 2 hours a week in commute time, and they’re spending it in ways CEOs don’t expect, January 2023
CNBC: Bosses are increasing RTO requirements, but experts say it won’t stick: ‘We’re at an inflection point’, January 2023
Bloomberg: Dimon Says Remote Work ‘Doesn’t Work’ for Younger Staff, Management, January 2023
The New York Times: Getting Rid of Remote Work Will Take More Than a Downturn, January 2023
Forbes: It Is 2023 and It Is YOUR Time, January 2023
Business Insider: Marc Benioff may be right that Salesforce’s young, remote employees are hurting the company’s productivity. But it’s not their fault. January 2023
The Washington Post: How San Francisco Lost High Earners and Got Richer, January 2023
Fortune: Goldman Sachs’ CEO called on all employees to return full-time to the office a year ago. Many still aren’t showing up, January 2023
Business Insider: Disney and Starbucks are forcing employees back to the office, but your company is unlikely to be next, Janary 2023
2022
The Wall Street Journal: Wage Inequality May Be Starting to Reverse, December 2022
The Telegraph: Why so many British workers have started to hate their jobs. And how to fix it, December 2022
The Economist: The open questions of hybrid working, December 2022
San Francisco Chronicle: Will tech layoffs end the era of remote work? Here’s what experts predict for 2023, December 2022
WIRED: The Work-From-Anywhere War Is Beginning, December 2022
CNBC: Stanford work-from-home expert on the 2022 prediction he’s glad he got right: ‘It’d be pretty horrifying if I got it wrong’, December 2022
Fortune: Remote work has become a right for knowledge workers. The data says we should create more fully remote jobs, December 2022
The Independent: I’m sick of all the male billionaires telling us how we should be working, December 2022
Los Angeles Times: Workers have high hopes for pay hikes next year. Perhaps too high, December 2022
The Guardian: What Jacob Rees-Mogg, Alan Sugar and the Daily Mail get wrong about home working, December 2022
Bloomberg: Thursday Is the New Monday As Hybrid-Work Patterns Shift, December 2022
CNBC: Why labor economists say the remote work ‘revolution’ is here to stay, December 2022
Marketwatch: People are ‘long social distancing’ from work due to COVID-19. Economists say that’s contributing to a drop in labor-force participation. December 2022
The Washington Post: For the Fed, a Red Card From the Seventies, December 2022
Forbes: Working From Home Is Settling In, But Questions Remain, December 2022
Bloomberg: We’ll Return to the Office in 2023 But Not to Stores, December 2022
The Washington Post: What We Learned About Hybrid Work in 2022, December 2022
The New York Times: How a ‘Golden Era for Large Cities’ Might Be Turning Into an ‘Urban Doom Loop’, November 2022
Bloomberg: Work Shift: The New Productivity Paradox, November 2022
The Wall Street Journal: Meta, Lyft, Salesforce and Other Tech Firms Dump Office Space as They Downsize, November 2022
Fortune: The thing that will keep your workers from quitting is the one thing you don’t want to give them, November 2022
Bloomberg: Are New Yorkers Back in the Office? It Depends on Who’s Counting, November 2022
The Washington Post and Bloomberg: Rising Inventory Will Be the Housing Market’s Next Problem, November 2022
Financial Times: What’s the point of HR?, November 2022
Fortune: The top 10 Fortune 500 companies offering employees the most flexibility, November 2022
The Economist: 23 items of vital vocabulary you’ll need to know in 2023, November 2022
The Washington Post: How the pandemic ended America’s bad romance with work, November 2022
ABC: Musk mandating Twitter workers return to office or resign. Will other companies follow?, November 2022
CNBC: Hybrid Work is Here to Stay, November 2022
Marketwatch: Elon Musk to Twitter staff: There will be ‘difficult times’ ahead, so get back to the office, November 2022
San Francisco Chronicle: How a massive Twitter layoff — and mandatory return to office — would impact S.F., November 2022
Financial Times: What commuters get up to when they no longer commute, October 2022
Fortune: Millennials and Gen Z want skill development at work or they’re out the door, November 2022
Fortune: 3 million Americans are still avoiding the workforce. They might be ‘long social distancing,’ October 2022
Bloomberg: More People Want to Work From Home But Remote Job Postings Are Declining, October 2022
Financial Times: What commuters get up to when they no longer commute, October 2022
Bloomberg: Fear of Catching Covid Has Cost US Economy $250 Billion This Year, October 2022
Bloomberg: Libraries Can Unite a Lonely, Divided Nation, October 2022
CNBC: Stanford University economics professor says hybrid work is here to stay, October 2022
Straits Times: What do MRT travel numbers tell us about work from home trends, October 2022
Financial Times: Office workers embrace hybrid working as post-pandemic norm, October 2022
Bloomberg: Offices in New York, Nationwide Hit Peak Post-Pandemic Occupancy, October 2022
The Economist: The magic formula of management, October 2022
The Economist: It is becoming harder to take off a sick day, October 2022
Bloomberg: Meet Kastle Systems, the Covid-Era Kings of Back-to-Work Data, October 2022
Financial Times: The future of work: trends and predictions, October 2022
Fortune: Companies won’t give raises that keep up with inflation. Hybrid work could be the cure, October 2022
Fortune: The guru of remote work says 3 companies are winning at hybrid plans. Here’s what everyone else can learn from them, October 2022
Fortune: High pay is no longer the marker of a good job—here’s what is, October 2022
Fortune: Middle managers can make everyone happy with hybrid work in 4 easy steps. Here’s how, October 2022
San Francisco Chronicle: Here’s how Bay Area residents really feel about returning to the office, October 2022
San Francisco Chronicle: Why these 7 Bay Area cities saw the most dramatic shift to remote work in California, October 2022
The Wall Street Journal: New Data Show Broad Shift to Remote Work During Pandemic, September 2022
Bloomberg: Say Hello to the Flexetariat, Empowered Employees Who Want a Change, September 2022
Fortune: Bosses complain workers don’t want to be in the office at all. They’re wrong, September 2022
Forbes: Salary Setbacks Might Be A Reality For Some Remote Workers, September 2022
Marketwatch: Corporate I.D.-card swipes, lunchtime orders, subway and train traffic, and traditional polls don’t suggest people are returning to the office in droves, September 2022
Fortune: Bosses are obsessed with returning to the office. Here’s why it’s already out of their hands, September 2022
USA Today: As recession looms, forget layoffs. Workers – and businesses – need flexible schedules. September 2022
Fortune: Return to office in full force as millennial parents drop their kids off at school, September 2022
BBC: Where the boss-worker power struggle goes next, September 2022
NPR Planet Money: Why your bad boss will probably lose the remote-work wars, September 2022
Bloomberg: Work From Home Is Loved Worldwide, Even If Wall Street Hates It, September 2022
The Wall Street Journal: Quiet Quitters Make Up Half the U.S. Workforce, Gallup Says, September 2022
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: Deutsche arbeiten 1,4 Tage pro Woche im Homeoffice, September 2022
Spiegel: Deutsche arbeiten im Schnitt 1,4 Tage pro Woche im Homeoffice, September 2022
Deutschlandfunk: Arbeiten im Home-Office hat sich etabliert, September 2022
Welt: Studie: Arbeitnehmer weltweit mögen Heimbüro, September 2022
Tagesschau: Kündigen für einen Job im Homeoffice? September 2022
Handelsblatt: Studie: Arbeitnehmer weltweit mögen Heimbüro, September 2022
Time: What We Know Now About the Business Impact of Hybrid Work, September 2022
Financial Times: Hybrid working: why the office-home balance is still a challenge, September 2022
Barron’s: The Boss May Not Like It. But Millions of Workers Aren’t Coming Back to the Office., September 2022
Fortune: The Washington Post’s CEO wants to blame remote work for poor performance. The numbers don’t add up, September 2022
The Wall Street Journal: Yes, Zoom Has an Office. No, It’s Not a Place to Work., September 2022
Marketwatch: ‘The backlash to quiet quitting smacks of another attempt by the ruling class to get workers back under their thumbs:’ Am I wrong?, September 2022
The New York Times: The Office’s Last Stand, August 2022
Business Insider: Shopify Monitored Slack Conversations After Going Remote, August 2022
Business Insider: Remote work has made it easier than ever for white-collar workers to find a job — but this could flip if roles get outsourced to Latin America and Asia, August 2022
Marketplace: Some employees are coming back, but there’s still a lot of empty office space out there, August 2022
Newsweek: Workers Face Pressure As Top Companies Push Post-Labor Day Return to Office, August 2022
NBC: Working From Home? You May Lose Some Money Soon, August 2022
San Francisco Chronicle: Workers want to be in the office five days a week or not at all. What does that mean for S.F.?, August 2022
Forbes: Not Even Elon Musk And Jamie Dimon Can Stop Remote Work, August 2022
Fortune: Workers are gaining the upper hand in the WFH war, August 2022
The Washington Post: The remote work revolution is already reshaping America, August 2022
Bloomberg: Why Downtown Won’t Die, August 2022
The New York Times: The Office Is Dying. It’s Time to Rethink How We Work. (The Ezra Klein Show), August 2022
Fortune: Everyone’s over remote work except for the workers themselves, August 2022
Yahoo!News: CEOs stand athwart the remote work era, yelling ‘stop!’, August 2022
The Times: City that never sleeps strives to get out of its pyjamas and back to the office, August 2022
Vox: The rise of the side startup, August 2022
The New York Times: What Remote Work Debate? They’ve Been Back at the Office for a While., August 2022
The Wall Street Journal: How Can Big Cities Get Us to Live There (Again)? July 2022
Financial Times: Nick Clegg becomes latest Meta executive bound for London, August 2022
Fortune: Why Meta executives are fleeing Silicon Valley, August 2022
CNBC: The Fed is fighting inflation. So is remote work, August 2022
Bloomberg: CEOs Blame Remote Workers for Slow Sales, Earnings Shortfalls, August 2022
The Times: Divided Britain must get out of its bubbles, August 2022
Financial Times: The great return to office standoff: bosses vs staff, July 2022
Business Insider: 4 reasons remote work will survive a recession, according to Stanford economist Nick Bloom, July 2022
Fortune: Workers are calling their bosses’ bluffs on in-office mandates, July 2022
Fortune: Most remote jobs are based in the big cities workers fled. There could be a reckoning as the return-to-office war rages on, July 2022
Forbes: In The Return-To-Office Standoff, Many Workers Say They Face Few Penalties For Staying Home, July 2022
Fortune: Boomers, bosses, and Elon Musk are all wrong about remote work, July 2022
USA Today: Need to strike a healthier work-life balance when you work from home? These apps can help., July 2022
Marketwatch: Does hybrid work hurt your job performance or promotion prospects? Finally, an answer., July 2022
Bloomberg: Hybrid Work Reduced Attrition Rate by a Third, Study Shows, July 2022
Business Insider: Employees are defying orders to return to the office — and they’re getting away with it, July 2022
Quartz: Employers are giving workers the WFH days they want, July 2022
Vox: The future of remote work, according to 6 experts, July 2022
Marketwatch: ‘It’s not about the future of work, it’s about the future of living’: How to handle the dreaded ‘return-to-work’ Zoom call with your boss, July 2022
The Atlantic: The Biggest Problem With Remote Work, July 2022
Forbes: In The Return-To-Office Standoff, Many Workers Say They Face Few Penalties For Staying Home, July 2022
Fortune: Working from home has become a perk like free lunch, and it could be replacing higher salaries, July 2022
CNBC: Remote work may be an unlikely ally in Federal Reserve’s inflation fight, July 2022
CBS: Remote work leads to slower wage growth for workers, July 2022
CNN: Why requiring workers to spend more days in the office could backfire, July 2022
The New York Times: Would You Pay $40 a Month to Have Strangers Watch You Work?, July 2022
Business Insider: Gen Z actually hates working from home, July 2022
Business Insider: Companies are letting you work from home so they can pay you less — and so you’ll be happier, July 2022
The San Francisco Standard: Easy Come, Easy Go: How Tech Fueled the Boom and Bust of San Francisco Office Work, July 2022
NPR: Lean Out: Employees Are Accepting Lower Pay In Order To Work Remotely, July 2022
The Globe and Mail: Three ingredients to make hybrid working a success: planning, communication and trust, July 2022
Mercury News: The balance of power is shifting in the tech industry, July 2022
The Washington Post: Working From Home Isn’t a Free Company Benefit, July 2022
Fortune: Hybrid work is the worst option for employees from marginalized groups, July 2022
CNN: The balance of power is shifting in the tech industry, July 2022
San Francisco Chronicle: These are the S.F. neighborhoods where home prices haven’t rebounded from pandemic lows, July 2022
USA Today: Some workers are re-creating home environments in the office; others decided not to return, July 2022
Yahoo!Finance: Remote Work Could Ease Inflation, Study Shows, June 2022
Financial Times: San Francisco’s battle to bring a digital city back to real life, June 2022
The Atlantic: How the Rest of the World Is Doing RTO, June 2022
BBC: ‘Zoom firing’: Are virtual layoffs the future? June 2022
Fortune: As the return-to-office debate rages in the U.S. and Europe, the matter is already settled in Asia, June 202
The Sun: WFH WINS OUT 5 (more) reasons you might not want to go back to the office, June 2022
Marketplace: Work at the office, work from home or both? Companies are still deciding what’s best. June 2022
FastCompany: What the future of hybrid work will (and won’t) look like, according to 27 business leaders, June 2022
The Atlantic: How a Recession Could Weaken the Work-From-Home Revolution, June 2022
Bloomberg: Remote Work Could Save Firms $206 Billion and Ease Pressure on the Fed, June 2022
Inc.com: New Stanford Study: Half of Workers Are Ignoring Requirements to Return to the Office Full Time. And Bosses Don’t Know What to Do About It, June 2022
Fortune: A huge number of employees are rebelling against in-office mandates. The battle is just beginning, June 2022
Quartz: Only half of workers asked back to the office full-time are actually going, June 2022
Vox: Why the return to the office isn’t working, June 2022
Fortune: NYC office life is finally bouncing back, but there’s still a long way to go, June 2022
The Washington Post: Long Covid Is Showing Up in the Employment Data, June 2022
Financial Times: Elon Musk demands Tesla employees show up to the office full-time, June 2022
Bloomberg: Are Workers More Productive at Home?, June 2022
Reuters: Analysis: Elon Musk opens door to a Tesla talent exodus, June 2022
Bloomberg: More People Are Moving to Manhattan Than Before the Pandemic, June 2022
The Guardian: Elon Musk tells employees to return to office or ‘pretend to work’ elsewhere, June 2022
Fortune: An Elon Musk takeover could end Twitter’s permanent work-from-home policy, June 2022
CNN: The future of work from home, June 2022
CBC: As Elon Musk orders Tesla staff back to the office, many tech companies are doing the opposite, June 2022
The New York Times: The Office Monsters Are Trying to Claw Their Way Back to 2019, June 2022
Financial Times: Elon Musk demands Tesla employees show up to the office full-time, June 2022
The New York Times: Elon Musk to Workers: Spend 40 Hours in the Office, or Else, June 2022
Bloomberg: Elon Musk’s Demand Staffers Stop ‘Phoning It in’ May Cost Him Talent, June 2022
Marketwatch: Elon Musk says workers should return to the office or quit. It’s a big gamble: ‘Tesla is kick-starting its own local Great Resignation’, June 2022
Forbes: An Unexpected Perk Of Remote Work: It’s Easier To Job Hunt, June 2022
San Francisco Chronicle: Is the future of the office the end of the office?, May 2022
Business Insider: Forcing staff to return to the office full time is ‘unrealistic’, say senior execs at Davos, May 2022
Barrons: Where did all the workers go? May 2022
Bloomberg: Nearly Half of Office Visits This Year Are for Once a Week, May 2022
Marketwatch: Elon Musk vs. the Great Resistance. CEOs and employees are locked in a battle of wills over returning to the office., May 2022
The Economist: The future of public transport in Britain, May 2022
The Times: Today’s culture war over working from home is no place for government, May 2022
The Times: Britons work from home while Europe goes back to the office, May 2022
Bloomberg: High Pay, Unlimited Vacation. Welcome to Wall Street, May 2022
Bloomberg: Goldman’s Unlimited Vacation Is a Mirage for Workaholic Bankers, May 2022
Fortune: Tech companies are struggling to navigate hybrid work. Here’s why sorting it out will take time, May 2022
The Globe and Mail: Is thinking in extremes getting in the way of hybrid work working?, May 2022
San Francisco Chronicle: Here’s exactly how much remote work is to blame for the surge in home prices, May 2022
Time: Lesson from JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs: Take a Hard Line on Return-to-Office at Your Own Risk, May 2022
Stateline: As Remote Work Persists, Cities Struggle to Adapt, May 2022
Marketplace: That line in the sand about going back to the office? It keeps moving., May 2022
Axios: Employers are allowing more remote work days, May 2022
The Wall Street Journal: The Fed Is Driving the Economy Without Knowing Its Speed Limit, May 2022
The Wall Street Journal: Pocket Squares and Printers That Work—the Surprise Joys of Being Back in the Office, May 2022
Financial Times: UK ahead of European peers on shift to working from home, May 2022
Bloomberg: Return-To-Office Plans Unravel as Workers Rebel in Tight Job Market, May 2022
Bloomberg: Expect a ‘permanent change’ of 25% working days from home: Stanford professor, May 2022
The Guardian: Let them eat cheese… working from home is here to stay, May 2022
ABC News: The Great Resignation: Its origins and what it means for future business, May 2022
BBC: Law firm says staff can work from home – for 20% less pay, May 2022
Bloomberg: How Covid-19 Transformed the U.S. Economy, April 2022
Forbes: How Remote Work Has Influenced The Multifamily Space, Perhaps Forever, April 2022
The Guardian: Five things every employer should know about making hybrid really work, April 2022
Forbes: Will Working From Home Cripple City Budgets?, April 2022
The Atlantic: Why Americans Are Leaving Downtowns in Droves, April 2022
The Wall Street Journal: What if the Optimal Workweek Is Two Days in the Office, Not Three?, April 2022
The New York Times: Should a Morning Staff Meeting Feel Like Homeroom?, April 2022
Forbes: Will Working From Home Cripple City Budgets?, April 2022
The Times: Jacob Rees-Mogg’s war on WFH ‘skivers’ is wrong, April 2022
USA Today: Gas prices, inflation, make some want to work from home even as offices call workers back, April 2022
The Wall Street Journal: Several Million U.S. Workers Seen Staying Out of Labor Force Indefinitely, April 2022
Yahoo!News: Millions of people who left the US job market last year plan to stay away in an act of ‘long social distancing,’ fanning the flames of inflation, April 2022
Yahoo!: ‘Long Social Distancing’ Will Keep Millions of Americans Out of the Workforce, April 2022
Business Insider: Millions of people who left the US job market last year plan to stay away in an act of ‘long social distancing,’ fanning the flames of inflation, April 2022
The National Desk: ‘Long social distancing’ could remove millions from workforce indefinitely, April 2022
The Wall Street Journal: California Considers the Four-Day Workweek, April 2022
The New York Times: Welcome Back to the Office. Isn’t This Fun?, April 2022
New York Post: ‘Long social distancing’ could keep US workers on sidelines indefinitely, April 2022
Bloomberg: One or Two Days in the Office Is the ‘Sweet Spot’ of Hybrid Work, April 2022
Marketplace: Businesses need staffing strategies to deal with ongoing COVID-19 surges, April 2022
The New York Times: As Remote Work Becomes Permanent, Can Manhattan Adapt?, April 2022
The Economist: How to make hybrid work a success, April 2022
BBC: The entry-level workers earning six-figure salaries, April 2022
The Washington Post: The return-to-office perk your boss won’t mention: Gossip is back on, April 2022
LA Times: Workers are suing their bosses to get their work-from-home costs reimbursed, April 2022
Business Insider: New Yorkers love working from their shoebox apartments, April 2022
The Washington Post: Five Days a Week in the Office? It’s Better for Everyone, April 2022
NY Magazine (The Cut): Will Some of Us Social Distance Forever?, April 2022
Fox: Will traditional office hours become a relic in post-pandemic workplaces? April 2022
The Wall Street Journal: Capital Spending Boom Helps Raise Productivity, Contain Costs, March 2022
LA Times: That big tech exodus out of California turns out to be a bust, March 2022
The Guardian: America is entering the great experiment of hybrid work, March 2022
Forbes: Why Both Remote And In-Office Workers Are Demanding Higher Pay, March 2022
Bloomberg: New Yorkers Plan to Cut Time Spent in the Office by Half, Survey Finds, March 2022
Chicago Tribune: Companies are calling workers back to offices, again. But it might not be for five days a week anytime soon., March 2022
The Wall Street Journal: What if Working in Sweatpants Unleashed Your Superpowers?, March 2022
Bloomberg: Remote-Work Experts Are in Demand as Return to Office Begins Anew, March 2022
The Boston Globe: Thank God it’s . . . Wednesday? Hybrid work is scrambling the days as we knew them., March 2022
San Francisco Chronicle: What’s at stake for downtown San Francisco, as companies compel people back into offices — for real, this time, March 2022
The New York Times: Researchers find an ongoing commitment to pandemic behaviors. They call it ‘long social distancing.’ March 2022
The Wall Street Journal: Women Embrace Flexible Working, but Economists Say It Could Hinder Their Careers, March 2022
The Wall Street Journal: How the Pandemic Broke Silicon Valley’s Stranglehold on Tech Jobs, March 2022
Wired: The Great Tech Hub Exodus Didn’t Quite Happen, March 2022
Bloomberg: Triple Take, March 2022
Business Insider: 5 million people have moved to a new area because of remote work since 2020. Another 19 million could still follow., March 2022
Time: Return to the Office? Not in This Housing Market, March 2022
Financial Times: The office is fine but the commute is still atrocious, March 2022
Bloomberg: Remote-Work Experts Are in Demand as Return to Office Begins Anew, March 2022
BBC: Should in-office workers be paid more?, March 2022
Seattle Times: Remote jobs can change work for good — if you work in the right place, March 2022
Mercury News: Google and Twitter reopenings launch grand experiment on the future of Silicon Valley workers, March 2022
San Francisco Chronicle: Mayor Breed wants office workers to return to S.F., but not everyone is on board, February 2022
Time: When No One Really Wants to Return to the Office, February 2022
The Times: Covid has changed the way we work and there’s no going back, February 2022
Business Insider: How to manage hybrid teams, February 2022
CBS: Many Bay Area Companies Unsure When To Bring Workers Back, February 2022
Newsweek: You Can’t Fix the Housing Crisis With Houses. We Need New Cities, February 2022
The Atlantic: The Five-Day Workweek Is Dying, February 2022
LA Times: Work life will never be the same. We need some in-person days and some remote, February 2022
Forbes: Less Deodorant, Fewer Showers, No Makeup: The Nine Extra Minutes Some Americans Sneak By Working Remote, February 2022
Fortune: The prophet of remote work says go ahead and do your household chores while nobody’s looking, February 2022
Business Insider: Workers spend one third less time on personal grooming when they clock in from home compared with when they commute to the office, January 2022
The Wall Street Journal: Workers Care More About Flexible Hours Than Remote Work, January 2022
Bloomberg Business: Work From Home Is Becoming a Permanent Part of How Jobs Are Done, January 2022
CBS: State Farm Hiring 3,400 Employees, Including Some Fully Remote Workers, January 2022
The Economist: Will remote work stick after the pandemic?, January 2022 and The Intelligence Podcast (January 11, 2022)
BBC: Why a wide-scale return to the office is a myth, January 2022
CNBC: Expect ‘huge battles’ over working from home between employees and bosses soon, says Stanford professor who’s studied remote work for 20 years, January 2022
Forbes: Roughly Half Of Hybrid Employees Will Follow Their Boss Into The Office, January 2022
NBC News: Full return to office is ‘dead,’ experts say — and remote is only growing, January 2022
LA Times: Podcast: Work from home, get spied on by your boss, January 2022
Barrons: I’ve Been Studying Work-from-Home for Years. Here’s What’s Coming., January 2022
The San Francisco Chronicle: Omicron is disrupting the return to offices. Why these workers don’t ever want to go back, January 2022
BBC: Is finding a ‘new normal’ in the workplace impossible?, January 2022
USA Today: Omicron pauses return to office plans, January 2022
WSJ MarketWatch: ‘Firms not offering this are missing out’: Hybrid home/office work is equivalent to a 10% pay raise, Stanford economist says, January 2022
2021
Financial Times: Nick Bloom: ‘It is becoming pretty clear now that hybrid working is here to stay’, December 2021
The Economist: A year in four charts, December 2021
The San Francisco Chronicle: Why these 6 Bay Area residents joined The Great Resignation, December 2021
The New York Times: When it comes to returning to the office, more companies are asking workers to stay tuned, December 2021
Time: Here’s How Companies Are Handling the Omicron Surge, December 2021
NBC News: Omicron delays quarter of companies’ reopening plans, survey says, December 2021
USA Today: Return to office paused (again) as COVID rages: Will we ever go back?, December 2021
CNBC: The return-to-office date is ‘history,’ business and health experts say, December 2021
Business Insider: Bill Gates’ tip for working from home: have a second screen that helps you stay in touch with colleagues, December 2021
The Australian: Why companies are saying yes to the demands of the avocado toast generation, December 2021
Inc.: The Zoom Ceiling: A New Barrier Holding Remote Workers Back (and What Leaders Can Do to Stop It), December 2021
Business Insider: A Stanford professor’s tips for remote managers, December 2021
The New York Times: The Worst of Both Worlds: Zooming From the Office, November 2021
Forbes: Technology Employees Risk Pay And Benefits To Push For Change—And In Many Cases, It’s Working, November 2021
Los Angeles Times: Is your company secretly monitoring your work at home?, November 2021
The Telegraph: Why working from home risks making women vanish from the career ladder, November 2021
The Economist: The fight over the hybrid future of work, November 2021
The Economist: How to ensure that the future of work is fair for all, November 2021
The Washington Post: Ask Help Desk: How remote workers can separate home and work lives, November 2021
CNBC: A vicious job market feedback loop is making the Great Resignation even worse — for employers, November 2021
The San Francisco Chronicle: The cool San Francisco office no longer matters for hiring. So what does?, November 2021
The Economist: Remote-first work is taking over the rich world, October 2021
The Economist: Enter third-wave economics, October 2021
WSJ MarketWatch: Amazon managers will decide when — and if — their teams should return to the office in person. Will this be the future of work?, October 2021
Al-Jazeera: Home vs office: What is the best hybrid work mix for workers?, October 2021
The San Francisco Chronicle: Is shoplifting forcing Walgreens to cut back in S.F.? Data on the closing stores puts the claim into perspective, October 2021
Business Insider: Walgreens cited shoplifting as rationale for closing 5 stores in San Francisco, but local officials, data, and experts cast doubt on that explanation
Daily Mail: Dashcam footage shows brazen smash-and-grab thieves breaking into parked car and snatching bags in crime-ridden San Fran, October 2021
Le Monde: Sommes-nous plus efficaces en télétravail ?, October 2021
The Washington Post: The Great Pandemic Work From Home Experiment Was a Remarkable Success, October 2021
The Economist: Wave Goodbye to the Handshake, September 2021
The Wall Street Journal: Companies Use Overtime to Solve Worker Shortages. That May Cost Them More Workers. September 2021
Handelsblatt: Dieser Stanford-Professor fordert mehr Gehalt für alle, die nicht im Home-Office arbeiten können, September 2021
The Boston Globe: Is the baby boomers’ long reign coming to an end?, September 2021
The Wall Street Journal: Work in the Covid-19 Era: What the Numbers Say About Vaccine Mandates, Quitting and More, September 2021
Bloomberg: Interview with Steven Davis (starting at 11:22), September 2021
The New York Times: Goodbye handshakes, hello, “Hello”, September 2021
CNN: The Post-Covid-19 World: Did the pandemic kill cities? September 2021
The New York Times: The Work-From-Home Economy and the Urban Job Outlook, September 2021
Inc.com: Three Research-Backed Tips for Successfully Implementing a Hybrid Work Policy, August 2021
The Wall Street Journal: How Employee Benefits May Change in a Hybrid Workplace, August 2021
The Economist: Why Women Need the Office, August 2021
Bloomberg: The Hybrid Work Revolution Is Already Transforming Economies, August 2021
CNN: How to make the days that you’re in the office really count, August 2021
The Washington Post: Gen Z Wants to Go Back to the Office, Just not Full-Time, August 2021
The New York Times: Delta Variant Hasn’t Yet Changed Many Return-to-Office Plans, August 2021
Business Insider: Employers are waging a war over work from home. WFH is winning. August 2021
The New York Times: Will Remote Workers Get Left Behind in the Hybrid Office? August 2021
The Wall Street Journal: Cable, Internet Companies Stand to Gain From Broadband Funding in Infrastructure Bill, August 2021
Bloomberg: Central Banks Are Learning to Live With Covid, August 2021
Bloomberg: Who’s really supposed to pay for your commute?, July 2021
Bloomberg: Fast Internet Everywhere Could Add $160 Billion to U.S. Economy, July 2021
Reuters: Universal access to high-speed internet will make home-based work more productive, study, July 2021
Axios: Universal internet access would boost remote work productivity, July 2021
The Wall Street Journal: The Boss Wants You Back in the Office. Like, Now., July 2021
WSJ MarketWatch: Who wins and loses in the return to the office — and how to avoid a ‘diversity crisis’, July 2021
Business Insider: Just over 6% of workers say they would quit their jobs if told to go back to the office 5 days a week, July 2021
Financial Times: Covid uncertainty means permanent change for managers, July 2021
CNBC: News organizations are taking different approaches to how often employees will come back to the office, July 2021
Business Insider: New starters can expect less choice over where they work in post-pandemic hybrid plans, says remote work expert, July 2021
The Economist: Covid-19 has persuaded Americans to leave city centres, July 2021
The Economist: Office re-entry is proving trickier than last year’s abrupt exit, July 2021
The Economist: The future of Silicon Valley headquarters, July 2021
The Globe and Mail: Implementing hybrid work? Don’t let your employees pick which days to be out of office, experts argue, June 2021
Inc.: Parents Want to Work From Home. Here’s Why They Shouldn’t, a Stanford Professor Says, June 2021
The Economist: The future of Silicon Valley headquarters, June 2021
The New York Times: The American Renaissance Has Begun, June 2021
The Wall Street Journal: Work Flexibility, Popular With Employees, Is Hardly a Holy Grail, June 2021
Bloomberg Wealth: Dreams of Working From a Beach Risk Turning Into a Tax Nightmare, June 2021
San Francisco Chronicle: Home values sank in these S.F. neighborhoods, thanks to the ‘doughnut’ effect, June 2021
The Atlantic: Winners and Losers of the Work-From-Home Revolution, June 2021
The Times: Looking forward to getting back to the office? Here’s why you shouldn’t, June 2021
Los Angeles Times: How work will change permanently after the pandemic, June 2021
PBS News Hour: How a rise in remote employment may impact post-pandemic work life, June 2021
BNN Bloomberg: Support for hybrid work model growing, but choice to WFH still seen as a perk, June 2021
Bloomberg Wealth: Americans Are Done With 5-Days a Week in the Office. Here’s What That Means for the Economy, June 2021
Business Insider: Companies could invite a ‘minefield’ of lawsuits if they let employees choose how often they work remotely, economist says, June 2021
MarketWatch: Are property prices in your neighborhood still rising? Blame it on the ‘donut effect’, June 2021
The Economist: An investment bonanza is coming, May 2021
The Economist: The Square Mile is a ghost town. It will stay that way, May 2021
The Economist: How the pandemic has upended the lives of working parents, May 2021
Austin Business Journal: A pay cut to work from home? Many employees would take it, May 2021
The New York Times: There’s an Exodus From the ‘Star Cities,’ and I Have Good News and Bad News, May 2021
The Washington Post: The economic recovery is getting messy. Just ask working women. May 2021
The Economist: A new age of suburbanisation could be dawning, May 2021
The New York Times: The ‘Hybrid Office’ Could Be Great. It Could Also Be Hell. May 2021
Bloomberg CityLab: The Death and Life of the Central Business District, May 2021
The Telegraph: Six reasons why working from home will stick around, May 2021
Reuters: Sticking with remote work? Businesses are betting on it, May 2021
The Globe and Mail: Remote work has boosted Canada’s hot housing market, but how long will the boom last?, May 2021
Bloomberg Businessweek: Productivity Is Finally Looking Up, and the Gains Could Lift Growth, May 2021
Bloomberg Economics: Work From Home to Lift Productivity by 5% in Post-Pandemic U.S., April 2021
The New York Times: How to Navigate the Postpandemic Office, April 2021
BBC Sounds: A part-time return to the office?, April 2021
Marketplace: Will companies need to offer remote work post-pandemic?, April 2021
Newsweek: Employees Balk at End to Remote Work: ‘Going Back to the Office Is Stupid”, April 2021
Business Insider: America’s best work-from-home expert is bracing for turmoil, April 2021
The Times: Pluses and minuses of the return to business as usual, April 2021
The Atlantic: You’re Gonna Miss Zoom When It’s Gone, April 2021
Reset Work: What research says about how to make hybrid work succeed, April 2021
The Wall Street Journal: U.S.’s Long Drought in Worker Productivity Could Be Ending, April 2021
NewsRadio: Working from your living room in your PJ’s can be pretty productive! (starting at 1:45), April 2021
The Economist: The Rise of Working from Home, April 2021
The Wall Street Journal: How Remote Work Is Reshaping America’s Urban Geography, March 2021
BBC: The bosses who want us back in the office, March 2021
Business Insider: Working from home became a perk for the most privileged Americans in the pandemic. The next few years will make that inequality permanent., March 2021
The Washington Examiner: Pandemic legacy: Two remote days of work a week likely to be the norm, research finds, March 2021
The Guardian: Our research shows working from home works, in moderation, March 2021
BBC: How your space shapes the way you view remote work, February 2021
The Washington Post: We’ve been cooped up with our families for almost a year. This is the result. February 2021
The New York Times: How to Keep Internet Trolls Out of Remote Workplaces, January 2021
ABC: How we’ll be working in 2021 and beyond, January 2021
The Wall Street Journal: Is a Home Office Actually More Productive? Some Workers Think So. January 2021
2020
Bloomberg: The Work-From-Home Boom Is Here to Stay. Get Ready for Pay Cuts, December 2020
The Wall Street Journal: What the Numbers Tell Us About Work Right Now, December 2020
The Wall Street Journal: COVID-19 USHERS IN A NEW ERA OF FULL-TIME TRAVEL, December 2020
Bloomberg: Hybrid Working Is Here to Stay Post-Pandemic: Stanford’s Nicholas Bloom, December 2020
Bloomberg Opinion: The new battles to come over working from home, December 2020
Financial Times: What can we learn from the great WFH experiment?, December 2020
World Economic Forum: COVID-19: Most American workers want to keep working from home, December 2020
Reuters: Couch or cubicle? Vaccine may not lure Americans back to the office, December 2020
The Washington Post: Americans might never come back to the office, and Twitter is leading the charge., October 2020
The Economist: Zoom and gloom: The transition to remote work is welcome. But it will be painful, October 2020
The Wall Street Journal: With No Commute, Americans Simply Worked More During Coronavirus, October 2020
CNBC Make it: Stanford professor on the new remote work economy: A ‘productivity disaster’ and ‘ticking time bomb for inequality’, October 2020
The Washington Post: Not even a pandemic can break rich cities’ grip on the U.S. economy
The Washington Post: Working From Home in a Pandemic Is Not Shirking It, September 2020
The Washington Post: Zoom went down for hours, disrupting schools and businesses, August 2020
The New York Times: Is the Five-Day Office Week Over?, July 2020
The Wall Street Journal: Does a Raise or Remote Work Sound Better?, July 2020
BBC: The remote work experiment that upped productivity 13%, July 2020
The Wall Street Journal: Google’s Extended Home Stay Isn’t for Everyone, June 2020
PBS News Hour: American skyscrapers face an uncertain future amid coronavirus, June 2020
BBC Radio 4: Curing Our Productivity Problem, June 2020
The New York Times: What If Working From Home Goes On…Forever?, June 2020
The Economist: New research casts light on the pandemic’s effects on resource allocation, June 2020
The New York Times: What If You Don’t Want to Go Back to The Office?, May 2020
The New York Times: Many Facebook Employees to Work From Home Permanently, May 2020
The New York Times: White-Collar Companies Race to Be The Last to Return to the Office, May 2020
PBS News Hour: Could the pandemic usher in a new era of working from home?, May 2020
The Atlantic: Work From Home is Here to Stay, May 2020
BBC Radio 4: The highs and lows of working from home