More babies, more workers, way more AI
Source: Business Insider ·
Six years after the pandemic, remote work isn't dead. Research links working from home to more births, increased employment, and faster AI adoption.
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Maxim Konankov; Agnès Bun; Thomas Trutschell; Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/Getty Images; Alyssa Powell/BIWork from home is dead: You've probably heard some version of this declaration from your boss over the past year. But the numbers show that WFH is actually very much here to stay. The prevalence of working from home has barely budged over the last two years, at around 26% of all American work days.That's a lot less than the 62% we saw in the early months of the pandemic — but a near quadrupling since 2019, when that share was at a miniscule 7%. Had the pandemic never happened, it probably would have taken us 40 years to get to work from home as much as we do today.We've reached a new normal for the corporate workplace — one where remote jobs have become a bigger minority, and it's also become totally normal for white-collar professionals to work from home at least a day or two a week.That shift has brought about all kinds of other changes in American life — some profound, some…
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