2021

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

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