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