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2025 (90)

November 2025

USA Today Could Working From Home Deliver a Baby Boom?
Seattle Times Have You Hugged Your Job Today?

October 2025

Newsweek Can remote work solve america’s fertility crisis
CNBC Bosses are still mandating RTO – workers are going but on their own terms
Business Insider Extra Births Align With Work-From-Home Trend
BBC Work in the Future – Is Working From Home Here to Stay?
Business Insider Show up to the office or miss out on equity

September 2025

New York Post RTO impacts remote workers’ baby boom
Forbes Return-to-office: Culture reset or corporate misstep?
The Washington Post Another wave of return-to-office crackdowns is coming
Marketplace Is the era of fully remote work coming to a close?
Bloomberg Could working from home become a legal right?
The Wall Street Journal The return to office rush is stalling
USA Today More moms are walking away from their careers. Why?
Inc. Companies that allow remote work grow 1.7x faster, new data shows

August 2025

The New York Times Hobbies too relaxing? Try ‘Leisure Crafting’
The Wall Street Journal The cities offering thousands of dollars to convince workers to move
Bloomberg Why are some stats too ‘girly’ for the BLS
The Guardian Who decides when and where you work?
USA Today These remote workers were ordered back to the office. They still work from home

July 2025

USA Today Starbucks remote workers ordered to return to office 4 days a week
USA Today Free office snacks, meals may vanish under Trump’s new tax bill
Business Insider Small companies’ pitch to workers: No RTO required
Boston Globe Downtown Boston housing prices have stagnated, why build more?
NPR Would you trust an economist with your economy?
The Wall Street Journal In America’s return to the office, women are falling behind
San Francisco Chronicle Does new SF scyscraper proposal signal the cities’ comeback?
Inc. New data shows workers are mostly ignoring RTO orders

June 2025

Newsweek Office attendance is rising but slowly, and a lot has changed
USA Today Is remote work only for the rich?
San Francisco Chronicle Bicoastal living isn’t just for the ultra wealthy
Mercury News Newsom’s return-to-office quest ignores overwhelming evidence
The Australian What these three job market trends mean for employers
Nikkei Is returning to work correct?

May 2025

Time The return-to-office reality gap
The Guardian Post-covid home working has failed to level up the UK economy
Business Insider A stealth alternative to layoffs
Business Insider I believe I’m owed the right to work from home as a mother
UK Parliament Live Home-based working committee meeting

April 2025

The Economist Unlike everyone else, Americans and Britons still shun the office
The Wall Street Journal Big Oil Is Offshoring Its Prized Engineering Jobs to India
The Economist Reclaiming the office lunch
The Australian Bungled WFH debate one of the big missed opportunities of this campaign
ABC News Why Peter Dutton’s policy backflip may make other companies cracking down on working from home reconsider

March 2025

SF Chronicle Rush over is over in the bay area. Welcome to the hour of permanent traffic
The Wall Street Journal Meet the People Who Work Fully Remote—and Hate It
Financial Times Side hustles, Zoom waves and the Great Casualisation: how Covid shaped new ways to work
The Times Five years of the WFH experiment: is it working?
The Straits Times California orders nearly 100,000 workers to return to offices
Fortune California orders nearly 100,000 workers to return to office
Forbes How To Make Returning To The Office More Appealing Than Remote Work
Times of India California and Texas join push to end remote work among state employees
The New York Times 15 Lessons Scientists Learned About Us When the World Stood Still
USA Today Work from home is reshaping the housing market 5 years after COVID

February 2025

USA Today Only 6% of federal employees report to an office for work? Not true | Fact check
BBC Sounds Is the working from home era over?
Washington Post Are federal workers lazy? Let’s look at the data.
The Sydney Morning Herald Sorry Jamie But WFH Isn’t the Disaster You Say it Is
The Telegraph One in three millennials to ignore return-to-office demands
The Telegraph Ordering staff back to the office will backfire – bosses need to move with the times
The Globe and Mail Balancing the home office, and the office
Financial Times Office attendance is becoming a performance metric
Bloomberg How to prepare if you are asked to return to the office
ABC News Debate around hybrid and WFH arrangements persists amid ongoing push to return to office
The Irish Times The baffling work from home puzzle
Financial Times The baffling WFH puzzle
MSNBC Elon Musk’s DOGE productivity trap
BBC Is the working from home era over?
The Economist When will remote workers see their pay cut?
Newsweek Driving Office Attendance Without an RTO Mandate

January 2025

Barrons Pressure Won’t Bring People Back to the Office. Something Else Might.
San Francisco Examiner Hybrid work here to stay in SF and beyond, professor predicts
wbur Trump wants federal workers back in the office. Will it improve efficiency, lower costs?
CNN Trump wants federal workers back at their desks. Why that may be harder than it sounds
Marketwatch Will Trump’s tough stance on remote work drag everyone else back to the office? Don’t bet on it.
BBC Should We Still Be Working from Home?
Reuters One Boston CEO’s FOMO RTO Strategy
Economic Times Decoding Silent Firing: an emerging career trend in 2025
Irish Times Trump orders government employees back to the office
The New York Times C.E.O.s, and President Trump, Want Workers Back in the Office
Reuters Trump orders federal workers back to office, weakens job protections
Newsweek Working From Home Is Not ‘Proper Work’: Grocery Boss
Independent Working from home is ‘not doing proper work’ says former Asda boss
Inc Trump’s RTO Plans Could Slash Federal Employee Head Count
BBC Working from home ‘not proper work’ – ex-Asda boss
The New York Times Remote Work Became a Washington Way of Life. Is That About to Change?
Business Insider Hold on to your current job if you want to keep working remotely
Business Insider Remote work is here to stay
Daily Mail Gen Z corporate queen divides Australia with scathing take on Aussies who work from home
The Wall Street Journal The American Worker Is Becoming More Productive
2024 (136 mentions)

December 2024

The Washington Post Return-to-work mandates are an invisible pay cut
Fortune The return to office wars are far from over: Half of workers say they’d job hunt or quit to avoid 5 days a week
Business insider A supercommuter who travels to New York City from DC shares why her 4 a.m. wakeup is worth it
The New York Times Packed Cubicles, Empty Corner Office: Remote Work Is Increasingly a Right of the Rich
Barrons More Office Days Don’t Boost Productivity, Economist Says. His View on the Pros and Cons of Work From Home.
Inc. Did 2024 Kill Remote Work? This year, bigwigs like Elon Musk and Amazon took aim at remote work. But one thing is clear: Hybrid is still the MO for plenty of companies.
The Globe and Mail Returning to the office a few days a week is worth the commute, experts say

November 2024

The Guardian Enforced return to office leads workers to seek new jobs
Business Insider Better catering and nicer bathrooms will help get workers back to the office, says this retail CEO
The Guardian In no great rush to get back to the office? UK home workers may not have a choice
The New York Times Another Jolt of Uncertainty for a Global Economy Mired in It
The Straits Times Return to office: What is happening globally
Bloomberg How the Debate Over WFH and RTO Mandates Has Evolved
Fortune Amazon employees are ‘rage-applying’ as its return-to-office mandate looms—experts say that’s exactly what CEO Andy Jassy wants

October 2024

Fast Company Yet another reason to ditch the RTO mandates: the traditional commute defies logic
The Economist Are bosses right to insist that workers return to the office?
Newsweek Map Shows States With The Most Remote Workers
The Economic Times Do mid-career professionals also get hybrid and remote roles?
The Irish Times Managers and the research disagree about hybrid work. What is this all about?
The New York Times Executives and Research Disagree About Hybrid Work. Why?
Business Insider Dell’s sudden 5-day return-to-office order leaves parents scrambling. to find childcare
Reuters Hey team: Weaker hiring means back to the office
Inc. A Shift in Remote Work? Microsoft and McKinsey Address RTO Plans in the Wake of Amazon’s 5-Day Mandate
Fortune Amazon’s RTO charge is just layoffs in disguise, experts say
Business Insider Everyone’s talking about RTO. Here’s why a leading expert thinks remote work is ‘here to stay.’
Bloomberg UK Remote Workers Sacrifice Pay for Flexibility
Business Insider A leading remote-work expert says Amazon’s RTO order is about ‘backdoor layoffs’
Vox In the new Miami, the old office culture reigns
The Globe and Mail The surprising ways hybrid work changed people’s grooming habits and notions of personal time
Handelsblatt So kann Remote Work in Ihrer Firma gut umgesetzt werden

September 2024

Irish Times Working from home is not the enemy
L’express Amazon enterre le télétravail : “On peut s’attendre à voir partir les employés les plus performants”
Financial Times The office is not the only solution
Financial Times Amazon says workers need to be in the office. Most of Silicon Valley disagrees.
Business Insider CEOs of big US companies are souring on hybrid work
The Globe and Mail Morning Update: Canada’s back-to-the-office push
Marketwatch Amazon wants staff back in the office 5 days a week. Your boss isn’t likely to follow suit.
The Wall Street Journal Amazon’s Return-to-Office Plans Spark Concern and Debate Among Employees
The New York Times Bank Mergers May Get Tougher to Do
The New York Times Amazon Tells Corporate Workers to Be Back in the Office 5 Days a Week
BBC Amazon tells staff to get back to office five days a week
The Times Are home-working managers holding back the careers of younger staff?
Washington Post Who will follow Amazon back into the office?
CNBC It’s the ‘year of the mandate’ at offices, but hybrid and remote work aren’t dying
SF Chronicle Here’s how work-from-home rates are changing in S.F.
Lemonde In the US, remote workers are the first to go when companies downsize
Marketwatch The job market is getting tougher for workers — but they may be gaining in the battle over remote work
Handelsblatt Stanford-Ökonom erklärt, wie Manager Remote Work gut umsetzen
Washington Post How technological shifts are creating a new era of work
Inc.com Companies such as PwC are now tracking employee location to enforce RTO
The Financial Times Why you should journal about your work life
The Financial Times Transcript: Who ate my lunch (hour)?
Time Six Experts on What We’ve Learned about Returning to the Office
Lexpress Au travail, la lente mort de la traditionnelle pause déjeuner
The Guardian London workers slower to return to office than New York or Paris, study says
The Wall Street Journal Rise of the Pint-Size Startup Is Reshaping the U.S. Economy
Financial Times London slower to return to office than New York and Paris

August 2024

Business Insider Dads are work-from-home winnders – but ditching the office has downsides
The Wall Street Journal Long Covid Knocked a Million Americans Off Their Career Paths
NBC Why remote work has staying power: It’s ‘still kicking,’ economist says
Reuters Four tips to make the most of hybrid work
Fortune More CEOs are enjoying the remote-work life—but employees resent it
The Economist Why companies get inflation wrong
Fortune Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt apologizes for remote-work rant against old employer
Financial Times Dating apps but for office sharing?

July 2024

Handelsblatt Zu viel Homeoffice verringert die Karrierechancen
National Geographic America is still dealing with the pandemic’s scars, psychologists say
South China Morning Post CEOs in Hong Kong turn to hybrid work model to retain talent, boost efficiency
US News 2024-2029 Housing Market Predictions
The Herald You’ll find a better work-life balance at Regus
Fortune Amazon is cracking down on RTO holdouts and ‘speaking directly’ to employees who haven’t spent enough time in the office
NPR Since the pandemic, a study shows the number of super commuters has increased
The Guardian ‘The new normal’: work from home is here to stay, US data shows
Handelsblatt Stanford-Ökonom zeigt großen Nachteil von Remote Work auf

June 2024

Marketplace Work from home rates have reached a new normal
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
Fast Company Hybrid work really is effective, according to new research
The Wall Street Journal The Power of Finding the Sweet Spot of Hybrid Work
Express New study blasts working from home employees as it makes one key finding
Daily Mail WFH does not make you more productive
The Wall Street Journal Working at Home Helped Whip Inflation
The Times The results are in — partial WFH ‘boosts job satisfaction’
The Financial Times Invested in the WFH argument? Home in on the evidence
The Dallas Morning News Dallas drivers are putting in more miles to get to work
The Hill Hybrid schedule more beneficial than fully in-office work
Fortune Major study from Stanford workplace guru reveals that hybrid work cuts attrition by 33% and has no negative impact on getting promoted
The Guardian Hybrid working makes employees happier, healthier and more productive, study shows
CNBC: ‘ Win-win-win’: Three-day hybrid work week is a success, largest study to date published in Nature says
Marketwatch What Wells Fargo’s ‘mouse-jiggler’ scandal says about the problem with work right now
The Wall Street Journal A Killer Golf Swing Is a Hot Job Skill Now
Forbes This new hybrid work study could help reconcile the war over work from home
CNBC Why a five-day return to office is unlikely
NBC Does it take you over an hour to get to work? Stanford study looks at ‘super commuters’
Daily Mail Rise of the super commuter
INC Hybrid Work Is Creating More Super Commuters
Marketplace The rise of the super commuters
The Wall Street Journal America’s Commute to Work Is Getting Longer and Longer
The Atlantic Who Really Benefits From the Great Remote-Work Experiment?

May 2024

CBS News Are you spending more money shopping online? Remote work could be to blame.
New York Post Everyone has been secretly doing this while on the job — and spending mega money
The Wall Street Journal We’re Spending Billions on This Work-From-Home Indulgence
Inc 1 in 3 Top Execs Plan to Quit Over Return-to-Office Mandates
SF Chronicle ‘Doom, but not loop’: Has San Francisco dodged the worst-case scenario?
Inc The Top 3 Reasons Why Workers Come Into the Office
Forbes Consider Your Commute To Work During A Job Search
The Economist Working from home and the US-Europe divide
The Financial Times Is remote work good for women?
PBS News Hour The benefits of a 4-day workweek, according to employers

April 2024

The Wall Street Journal The British Are Coming for Your White-Collar Job
Marketplace Report says remote workers are getting little training on best practices

March 2024

MSNBC The Future of Remote Work
The Wall Street Journal We’re Working Less on Fridays Than We Used to, and That’s OK
The Wall Street Journal Working From Home Could Be Great—With These New Features
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’
The New York Times Why School Absences Have ‘Exploded’ Almost Everywhere
The Wall Street Journal They Chose to Take a Pay Cut—and Say They’re Happier
SF Chronicle S.F. workers are living increasingly far from the office. Map shows where they’ve moved
The New York Times The ZIP Code Shift: Why Many Americans No Longer Live Where They Work
The Financial Times Americans are still sweeter on stuff than before the pandemic. How long can it last?
INC Workers Now Live Farther From the Office
The Financial Times The banks on the frontline of the remote working battle
The San Francisco Chronicle: T he return to office has stagnated. Here’s what that means for the future of Bay Area housing prices
Time No Recession? Thank Women

February 2024

The New York Times Are We in a Productivity Boom? For Clues, Look to 1994
The Financial Times Work from home if you want but don’t expect a pay rise
INC CEOs and Data Agree: If Workers Want a Promotion, They Have to Go Into the Office at Least 4 Days a Week
Business Insider Companies forcing workers to come back to the office are creating a ‘massive disruption’ in their lives, workplace expert says
The Financial Times The home-working revolution is harming younger workers

January 2024

The WSJ The Companies Calling Workers Back to the Office Five Days a Week
The Guardian Bank of America sends warning letters to employees not going into offices
The Telegraph What working from home does to your career – and bank balance
CNBC Employers and workers are at odds over work-life balance — here’s who is winning
Forbes A ‘Marauder’s Map” for the Office
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
The Wall Street Journal Remote Workers Are Losing Out on Promotions, New Data Shows
LA Times Remote workers actually aren’t more productive. Will bosses finally call them back in this year?
2023 (228 mentions)

December 2023

CNN What to expect at work in 2024
USA Today Out of office? Not likely. More than half of Americans worked while on vacation in 2023
Bloomberg Work Shift: Five Things We Learned In 2023
The Telegraph Employers must own up to their liability in Britain’s sick problem
USA Today Wayfair CEO Niraj Shah tells employees to ‘work longer hours’ in year-end email
The Wall Street Journal We Own More Cars Than Ever. So Why Are We Driving Less?
Fortune: 2023 The year of the workplace gridlock, where nothing changed and nobody was happy
CNN Wayfair CEO: Employees need to work longer hours
USA Today 2023 was the year return-to-office died. Experts share remote-work trends expected in 2024
Fortune Stressed-out employees are multitasking to survive virtual meetings–and bosses hate it
New York Post I moved to Tulsa for $10,000
The Wall Street Journal Return-to-Office Mandates Are a Disaster for Working Mothers
The Economist Brexit? Hah! Lockdowns? Shrug! Can nothing stop London?
BBC The ‘vibecession’ driving holiday mass layoffs
Business Insider Fully remote workers are at the highest risk of being replaced by AI, a Stanford professor says
The New York Times TikTok
The Wall Street Journal The Biggest Winners and Losers From the Work-From-Home Revolution
CNBC Full return to office isn’t the only work model dying. So is fully remote
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

November 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
CNBC Return to office is ‘dead,’ Stanford economist says. Here’s why
Bloomberg RTO? WFH? Why Post-Covid Work Norms Are So Confusing, November 2023
Fortune Citadel CEO Ken Griffin says remote work has created a ‘wild card’ workplace that makes it easier to fire people
The New York Times Is Remote Work the Answer to Women’s Prayers, or a New ‘Mommy Track’?
Bloomberg Why Your Office Space Continues to Shrink
Forbes Companies With Flexible Remote Work Policies Outperform On Revenue Growth: Report
CNBC Why the golden age of remote work may be coming to an end
INC Reimagining Workplace Flexibility in the Era of Return-to-office Mandates
Fortune Remote work guru Nick Bloom thinks we’ll never go back to the office full-time—but ‘maintaining discipline is important’
CNN When it comes to remote work, Stephen Schwarzman doesn’t get it
Fortune The alleged crime epidemic in places like San Francisco causing stores to flee may actually just be bad management, investment bank suggests
CBS News Working it out: Is hybrid the future of work?

October 2023

Financial Times Performance reviews are awful yet unstoppable
The Economist How to be a better boss
The Economist Pity the modern manager—burnt-out, distracted and overloaded
Washington Post Amazon Managers Should Manage More, Take Attendance Less
Fortune CEOs are secretly plotting against hybrid work and pushing for a 5-day office return by 2026
The New York Times The Five-Day Office Week Is Dead
USA Today How much is that remote job worth to you? Americans will part with pay to work from home
The New York Times Here’s What We Do and Don’t Know About the Effects of Remote Work
Business Insider 3 unique ways employees and companies are making 4-day workweeks happen
The New York Times Vaults, Ducts, Kitchens: Everything Must Go When a Company Moves Out
Bloomberg Remote Work Conference Rekindles Productivity Debate

September 2023

The Atlantic One Big Benefit of Remote Work
Washington Post Some Banks Are Actually Sticking With WFH
The New York Times People in Their 20s Aren’t Supposed to Be This Unhappy
The Wall Street Journal How a Four-Day Workweek Actually Works, From the Companies Pulling It Off
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
Boston Globe As return-to-office debate continues, Boston employers say this could be as returned as it gets
Time Where a Remote Employee Lives Shouldn’t Affect Their Pay
Fortune Thanks to A.I., workers are struggling with “FOBO”—fear of being obsolete
The New York Times Should We Really Be Texting for Work?
Financial Times Employers and staff seek truce on office working
Financial Times A round of golf on a Wednesday afternoon? The new rules of WFH are up for debate
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
Fortune CEOs are gambling that pandemics are over with their remote-work policies
The Mercury News Will business travel to the Bay Area bounce back to pre-COVID levels? Maybe not
The New York Times Where in the World Are People Back in the Office?
CNN The state of return-to-office policies: a post-Labor Day reset?
The Atlantic The other work remote workers get done
Business Insider You’re more productive in the office, say elite CEOs. Data seems to back them up.
The Times From docking bonuses to desk checking: the WFH clampdown begins
Financial Times Bosses won’t like it but WFH is a happier way to work

August 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’
Financial Times Are Fridays dead?
Yahoo Finance Move Over, San Francisco: The Suburbs of Silicon Valley Are Calling
CBS News San Francisco neighborhoods hosting smaller shared spaces for remote work
The Economist Nicholas Bloom predicts a working-from-home Nike swoosh
The Times Enticing workers back to the office can only help business
Bloomberg Back to the office or work from home?
The Economist How to get the most out of mentoring
Business Insider Return-to-office orders look like a way for elite, work-obsessed CEOs to grab power back from employees
Business Insider Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon hates remote work. Now managers are cracking the whip on returning to the office.
Inc. Companies That Offer Flexible Working Are Hiring Twice as Fast as Full-Time In-Office Firms, New Report Finds
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
The Guardian ‘The office is for socializing’: how work from home has revolutionized work
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’
Forbes White-Collar Workers Face Hyperspecialization, Fewer Job Openings And Threats To Their Job Security
Business Insider People would rather work anywhere but the office — including their gyms
The Guardian ‘Never again’: is Britain finally ready to return to the office?
WSJ Marketplace Millions of Americans are Zooming all wrong
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
Financial Times ‘Five days? No way’: The great office stand-off
The Washington Post Zoom, a champion of remote work, calls employees back to office
CNN Zoom orders some employees back to the office
Mercury News Even San Jose-based Zoom is making its staff return to the office
CNBC Remote or hybrid work is here to stay: Bauke Group president
SF Chronicle Pandemic mainstay Zoom calls workers back to office — but for less than half the week
The New York Times Even Zoom Is Making People Return to the Office
The Times Time to whoosh back to the office, Zoom tells its staff
The Wall Street Journal Need to Hire Workers in a Hot Job Market? Let Them Do Some Remote Work
Fortune Grindr retaliated against employees for trying to unionize by forcing them back to the office, labor complaint alleges
Fortune Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg might be right: Remote workers are less productive, new research finds
The Wall Street Journal Workers to Employers: We’re Just Not That Into You
NPR When remote work works and when it doesn’t
Fortune Remote work is a lot more popular in English-speaking countries. Even the experts can’t figure out why

July 2023

Financial Times Working from home is full of surprises
USA Today Work from home as a drive-thru employee? How remote blue-collar jobs are catching on
The Wall Street Journal How Workers Really Spend Their Days
The New York Times What’s the Status of Flaunting Your Status?
Financial Times It may not feel like it, but the planet has many reasons to be cheerful
Bloomberg Brits Are Working From Home More Than Rest of Europe
The Atlantic Why the Remote-Work Debate Stays So Heated
The Economist The fight over working from home goes global
Business Insider The RTO push is over. Hybrid work has won out, says nation’s top remote-work expert
Fortune Remote work has increased steadily since the 1960s—and it will likely climb upward for decades, Stanford research finds
Fortune WFH’s staunchest proponents just dropped a bomb: Fully remote workers are officially less productive
The Wall Street Journal Remote Work Sticks for All Kinds of Jobs
The Economist The working-from-home illusion fades
The Wall Street Journal Remote Work Sticks for All Kinds of Jobs
CBC Canada wants to woo ‘digital nomads.’ Can we compete?
CNN Co-working spaces are getting weird

June 2023

The Wall Street Journal Mondays Are the New Office Fight
The Guardian ‘I feel like I’ve missed out’: has working from home thrown the gen Zs out with the water cooler?
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
Bloomberg Remote Work Pay Cuts Send the Wrong Message
Financial Times Are you doing hybrid wrong?
CNN The job market enters a new phase as the Great Resignation ends
Marketwatch ‘Remote work doesn’t work’: David Sacks, ex-PayPal executive, blasts working from home as ‘lifestyle’
CNBC Remote jobs are moving overseas and to smaller U.S. cities: ‘The same skills for 60% of the cost’
Marketwatch Returning to the office is like getting back with an ex-spouse. It may provide the secret to a happy reunion.
CNN Martha Stewart slams work from home as productivity drain
The New York Times Wonking Out: Zooming and the Future of Cities

May 2023

The New York Times Why Are Remote Corporate Workers Having More Fun? Co-Working Spaces.
The Wall Street Journal We Asked Workers Why They’re Not Coming Back to the Office
Marketplace New businesses are popping up in “donuts” of downtowns
The New York Times Office Workers Don’t Hate the Office. They Hate the Commute
Financial Times Homeworking risks holding back London’s economy, report finds
The New York Times Working From Home and Realizing What Matters
The Guardian Staff work in central London offices for 2.3 days a week, study finds
The Times Remote working is probably here to stay, and these are the reasons why
Time Return-to-Office Full Time Is Losing. Hybrid Work Is On the Rise
Vox The “return to the office” won’t save the office
Financial Times US cities must beware the ‘donut effect’
CNN The real reasons stores such as Walmart and Starbucks are closing in big cities
The Globe and Mail The remote work revolution that never took off
Business Insider India Wonder why your rent is so high? Because everyone has decided they want to live alone
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
New York Post I retired early from a six-figure job so I wouldn’t have to work remote
CNBC Some remote jobs will still be hot in 5 years, and others ‘might not exist,’ economists say—how to know the difference
The Wall Street Journal The Return to the Office Has Stalled
Bloomberg Best and Worst US Cities for Remote Work Job Openings
The Economist How to two-time your employer: a tech worker’s guide

April 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
Fortune Remote work could be why you lose your job. Higher salaries face the greatest risk
The New York Times The R.T.O. Whisperers Have a Plan
Bloomberg People Working in the Office Spend 25% More Time on Career Development
Fortune Gen Z hits surprising adult milestone: working in the office full-time
The New York Times The Silver Linings of a ‘Doom Loop’
Bloomberg Work Shift: How Dodgy Data Cloud the Future of Work
CNN The latest on hybrid work: Who is WFH and who isn’t
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
Marketplace Employers want everyone back in the office — for real this time
Fortune First came the return-to-office policies. Now comes the discipline: How companies are punishing work-from-home holdouts
The Washington Post Half a Million Job Cuts Could Be Just the Start
Los Angeles Times Why remote work is becoming a blue-state privilege
Marketplace Pandemic exodus from big cities was short-lived
Marketwatch People have stopped fleeing cities and are starting to stay put census data shows
The New York Times R.I.P. W.F.H.? Not So Fast (Peter Coy Column)
The Wall Street Journal Next Wave of Remote Work Is About Outsourcing Jobs Overseas

March 2023

Bloomberg Much of UK Lags Behind Major Hubs in Remote-Work Boom
The New York Times Do We Know How Many People Are Working From Home?
Fortune What employees say will get them to return the office
Forbes Why Working From Home Is Here To Stay
The Wall Street Journal Exodus From America’s Big Cities Slowed Last Year
Vox How to save America’s public transit systems from a doom spiral
Financial Times Why five days in the office don’t add up
Bloomberg ‘Zoom Towns’ Exploded in the Work-From-Home Era. Now New Residents Are Facing Layoffs
Fortune Hybrid workers are exercising and sleeping more, reporting better mental health than before the pandemic
The Wall Street Journal Work-From-Home Era Ends for Millions of Americans
The New York Times ‘The Era of Urban Supremacy Is Over’
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
Financial Times ‘It is not cut-throat like Goldman Sachs’: SVB’s culture in focus
The New York Times Golf at 3 p.m. Thursday? Sure, It’s the Afternoon Fun Economy.
San Francisco Chronicle ‘The New Normal is Hybrid,’
Business Insider Remote jobs have some workers feeling like college kids again: They play in the afternoon and work at night
Fortune Remote workers doing more work at night are taking afternoon breaks, and golf courses are among those benefiting
Financial Times From SVB to the BBC: why did no one see the crisis coming?
San Jose Mercury News How many people will ride BART through San Jose? The answer could define South Bay transit, but nobody knows
Financial Times How video calls kill creativity
The Guardian ‘Managers are human too’: leaders left lonely by hybrid working
Financial Times Have CEOs lost patience with hybrid working?
Bloomberg Washington Suffers as Federal Employees Work From Home
The Wall Street Journal Women’s Return to the Workforce Piles Momentum on a Hot Economy
Bloomberg Two Out of Three Banks Offer Workers Some Flexibility Despite Office Push
Barron’s Hybrid Work Is the New Norm—and So Are Half-Full Buildings
Fortune Wall Street CEOs like Jamie Dimon talk about how going remote ‘doesn’t work,’ but most banks are actually flexible
The Washington Post How hybrid work changed employee communication and collaboration
Fortune Shark Tank investor Kevin O’Leary says Gen Z has ‘no intention’ of ever coming to the office. He’s almost definitely wrong
CNBC Full-time office work is ‘dead’: 3 labor experts weigh in on the future of remote work
Bloomberg Can’t Give Employees Raises? Add Benefits
Business Insider Forget the ‘death of downtowns’ — we’re about to experience the Big City Renaissance
The New York Times Office Mandates. Pickleball. Beer. What Will Make Hybrid Work Stick?
New York Post US corporate workers trail Europe, Asia in return-to-office rate: report

February 2023

Financial Times Lockdowns are over. WFH isn’t. Why?
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
Forbes Whitehall, We Have A Labor Problem. Freelancing To The Rescue?
The New York Times Trial Run of 4-Day Workweek Wins Converts
Fortune Working from home can save workers thousands a year—here are the average savings in 12 American cities
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
Bloomberg Your Side Hustle Is Another Sign of a Tight US Job Market
The Hill Nearly 30 percent of work remains remote as workers dig in
BBC Amazon calls staff back to office three days a week
The Wall Street Journal What CEOs Are Getting Wrong About the Future of Work—and How to Make It Right
Forbes New York City Is Losing Out On $12 Billion Annually Because Of Remote Work
Fortune Hybrid work makes people better at their jobs, from commuting to ‘deep work.’ But companies aren’t doing it right
CNBC Hybrid workers earn more than remote and in-person workers, according to new research—here’s why
The Washington Post Should the Bureaucrats Get Back to Their Desks?
Bloomberg Remote Work Is Costing Manhattan More Than $12 Billion a Year
The Wall Street Journal For Remote Workers, These U.S. Cities Are Great Places to Live
NBC New Work From Home Data Shows Disparities
Time As People Return to Offices, It’s Back to Misery for America’s Working Moms
BBC The companies backtracking on flexible work
Bloomberg Side Hustles Are Twice as Common as US Jobs Data Suggest, Survey Finds
The Washington Post America’s offices are now half-full. They may not get much fuller.
Marketplace Back to the office … kinda

January 2023

The Wall Street Journal The Job Market for Remote Workers Is Shrinking
Business Insider Remote work hasn’t actually saved Americans much time — they’re mainly just working more
MarketWatch Commuting takes a big chunk out of the average worker’s day. So what do remote workers do with all that extra time?
Fortune Working from home saves employees 2 hours a week in commute time, and they’re spending it in ways CEOs don’t expect
CNBC Bosses are increasing RTO requirements, but experts say it won’t stick: ‘We’re at an inflection point’
Bloomberg Dimon Says Remote Work ‘Doesn’t Work’ for Younger Staff, Management
The New York Times Getting Rid of Remote Work Will Take More Than a Downturn
Forbes It Is 2023 and It Is YOUR Time
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.
The Washington Post How San Francisco Lost High Earners and Got Richer
Fortune Goldman Sachs’ CEO called on all employees to return full-time to the office a year ago. Many still aren’t showing up
Business Insider Disney and Starbucks are forcing employees back to the office, but your company is unlikely to be next
2022 (261 mentions)

December 2022

The Wall Street Journal Wage Inequality May Be Starting to Reverse
The Telegraph Why so many British workers have started to hate their jobs. And how to fix it
The Economist The open questions of hybrid working
San Francisco Chronicle Will tech layoffs end the era of remote work? Here’s what experts predict for 2023
WIRED The Work-From-Anywhere War Is Beginning
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’
Fortune Remote work has become a right for knowledge workers. The data says we should create more fully remote jobs
The Independent I’m sick of all the male billionaires telling us how we should be working
Los Angeles Times Workers have high hopes for pay hikes next year. Perhaps too high
The Guardian What Jacob Rees-Mogg, Alan Sugar and the Daily Mail get wrong about home working
Bloomberg Thursday Is the New Monday As Hybrid-Work Patterns Shift
CNBC Why labor economists say the remote work ‘revolution’ is here to stay
Marketwatch People are ‘long social distancing’ from work due to COVID-19. Economists say that’s contributing to a drop in labor-force participation.
The Washington Post For the Fed, a Red Card From the Seventies
Forbes Working From Home Is Settling In, But Questions Remain
Bloomberg We’ll Return to the Office in 2023 But Not to Stores
The Washington Post What We Learned About Hybrid Work in 2022

November 2022

The New York Times How a ‘Golden Era for Large Cities’ Might Be Turning Into an ‘Urban Doom Loop’
Bloomberg Work Shift: The New Productivity Paradox
The Wall Street Journal Meta, Lyft, Salesforce and Other Tech Firms Dump Office Space as They Downsize
Fortune The thing that will keep your workers from quitting is the one thing you don’t want to give them
Bloomberg Are New Yorkers Back in the Office? It Depends on Who’s Counting
The Washington Post and Bloomberg Rising Inventory Will Be the Housing Market’s Next Problem
Financial Times What’s the point of HR?
Fortune The top 10 Fortune 500 companies offering employees the most flexibility
The Economist 23 items of vital vocabulary you’ll need to know in 2023
The Washington Post How the pandemic ended America’s bad romance with work
ABC Musk mandating Twitter workers return to office or resign. Will other companies follow?
CNBC Hybrid Work is Here to Stay
Marketwatch Elon Musk to Twitter staff: There will be ‘difficult times’ ahead, so get back to the office
San Francisco Chronicle How a massive Twitter layoff — and mandatory return to office — would impact S.F.
Fortune Millennials and Gen Z want skill development at work or they’re out the door

October 2022

Financial Times What commuters get up to when they no longer commute
Fortune 3 million Americans are still avoiding the workforce. They might be ‘long social distancing,’
Bloomberg More People Want to Work From Home But Remote Job Postings Are Declining
Financial Times What commuters get up to when they no longer commute
Bloomberg Fear of Catching Covid Has Cost US Economy $250 Billion This Year
Bloomberg Libraries Can Unite a Lonely, Divided Nation
CNBC Stanford University economics professor says hybrid work is here to stay
Straits Times What do MRT travel numbers tell us about work from home trends
Financial Times Office workers embrace hybrid working as post-pandemic norm
Bloomberg Offices in New York, Nationwide Hit Peak Post-Pandemic Occupancy
The Economist The magic formula of management
The Economist It is becoming harder to take off a sick day
Bloomberg Meet Kastle Systems, the Covid-Era Kings of Back-to-Work Data
Financial Times The future of work: trends and predictions
Fortune Companies won’t give raises that keep up with inflation. Hybrid work could be the cure
Fortune The guru of remote work says 3 companies are winning at hybrid plans. Here’s what everyone else can learn from them
Fortune High pay is no longer the marker of a good job—here’s what is
Fortune Middle managers can make everyone happy with hybrid work in 4 easy steps. Here’s how
San Francisco Chronicle Here’s how Bay Area residents really feel about returning to the office
San Francisco Chronicle Why these 7 Bay Area cities saw the most dramatic shift to remote work in California

September 2022

The Wall Street Journal New Data Show Broad Shift to Remote Work During Pandemic
Bloomberg Say Hello to the Flexetariat, Empowered Employees Who Want a Change
Fortune Bosses complain workers don’t want to be in the office at all. They’re wrong
Forbes Salary Setbacks Might Be A Reality For Some Remote Workers
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
Fortune Bosses are obsessed with returning to the office. Here’s why it’s already out of their hands
USA Today As recession looms, forget layoffs. Workers – and businesses – need flexible schedules.
Fortune Return to office in full force as millennial parents drop their kids off at school
BBC Where the boss-worker power struggle goes next
NPR Planet Money Why your bad boss will probably lose the remote-work wars
Bloomberg Work From Home Is Loved Worldwide, Even If Wall Street Hates It
The Wall Street Journal Quiet Quitters Make Up Half the U.S. Workforce, Gallup Says
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Deutsche arbeiten 1,4 Tage pro Woche im Homeoffice
Spiegel Deutsche arbeiten im Schnitt 1,4 Tage pro Woche im Homeoffice
Deutschlandfunk Arbeiten im Home-Office hat sich etabliert
Welt Studie: Arbeitnehmer weltweit mögen Heimbüro
Tagesschau Kündigen für einen Job im Homeoffice?
Handelsblatt Studie: Arbeitnehmer weltweit mögen Heimbüro
Time What We Know Now About the Business Impact of Hybrid Work
Financial Times Hybrid working: why the office-home balance is still a challenge
Barron’s The Boss May Not Like It. But Millions of Workers Aren’t Coming Back to the Office.
Fortune The Washington Post’s CEO wants to blame remote work for poor performance. The numbers don’t add up
The Wall Street Journal Yes, Zoom Has an Office. No, It’s Not a Place to Work
Marketwatch: ‘ The backlash to quiet quitting smacks of another attempt by the ruling class to get workers back under their thumbs:’ Am I wrong?

August 2022

The New York Times The Office’s Last Stand
Business Insider Shopify Monitored Slack Conversations After Going Remote
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
Marketplace Some employees are coming back, but there’s still a lot of empty office space out there
Newsweek Workers Face Pressure As Top Companies Push Post-Labor Day Return to Office
NBC Working From Home? You May Lose Some Money Soon
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.?
Forbes Not Even Elon Musk And Jamie Dimon Can Stop Remote Work
Fortune Workers are gaining the upper hand in the WFH war
The Washington Post The remote work revolution is already reshaping America
Bloomberg Why Downtown Won’t Die
The New York Times The Office Is Dying. It’s Time to Rethink How We Work. (The Ezra Klein Show)
Fortune Everyone’s over remote work except for the workers themselves
Yahoo!News CEOs stand athwart the remote work era, yelling ‘stop!’
The Times City that never sleeps strives to get out of its pyjamas and back to the office
Vox The rise of the side startup
The New York Times What Remote Work Debate? They’ve Been Back at the Office for a While.
Financial Times Nick Clegg becomes latest Meta executive bound for London
Fortune Why Meta executives are fleeing Silicon Valley
CNBC The Fed is fighting inflation. So is remote work
Bloomberg CEOs Blame Remote Workers for Slow Sales, Earnings Shortfalls
The Times Divided Britain must get out of its bubbles

July 2022

The Wall Street Journal How Can Big Cities Get Us to Live There (Again)?
Financial Times The great return to office standoff: bosses vs staff
Business Insider 4 reasons remote work will survive a recession, according to Stanford economist Nick Bloom
Fortune Workers are calling their bosses’ bluffs on in-office mandates
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
Forbes In The Return-To-Office Standoff, Many Workers Say They Face Few Penalties For Staying Home
Fortune Boomers, bosses, and Elon Musk are all wrong about remote work
USA Today Need to strike a healthier work-life balance when you work from home? These apps can help.
Marketwatch Does hybrid work hurt your job performance or promotion prospects? Finally, an answer.
Bloomberg Hybrid Work Reduced Attrition Rate by a Third, Study Shows
Business Insider Employees are defying orders to return to the office — and they’re getting away with it
Quartz Employers are giving workers the WFH days they want
Vox The future of remote work, according to 6 expert
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
The Atlantic The Biggest Problem With Remote Work
Forbes In The Return-To-Office Standoff, Many Workers Say They Face Few Penalties For Staying Home
Fortune Working from home has become a perk like free lunch, and it could be replacing higher salaries
CNBC Remote work may be an unlikely ally in Federal Reserve’s inflation fight
CBS Remote work leads to slower wage growth for workers
CNN Why requiring workers to spend more days in the office could backfire
The New York Times Would You Pay $40 a Month to Have Strangers Watch You Work?
Business Insider Gen Z actually hates working from home
Business Insider Companies are letting you work from home so they can pay you less — and so you’ll be happier
The San Francisco Standard Easy Come, Easy Go: How Tech Fueled the Boom and Bust of San Francisco Office Work
NPR Lean Out: Employees Are Accepting Lower Pay In Order To Work Remotely
The Globe and Mail Three ingredients to make hybrid working a success: planning, communication and trust
Mercury News The balance of power is shifting in the tech industry
The Washington Post Working From Home Isn’t a Free Company Benefit
Fortune Hybrid work is the worst option for employees from marginalized groups
CNN The balance of power is shifting in the tech industry
San Francisco Chronicle These are the S.F. neighborhoods where home prices haven’t rebounded from pandemic lows
USA Today Some workers are re-creating home environments in the office; others decided not to return

June 2022

Yahoo!Finance Remote Work Could Ease Inflation, Study Shows
Financial Times San Francisco’s battle to bring a digital city back to real life
The Atlantic How the Rest of the World Is Doing RTO
BBC ‘Zoom firing’: Are virtual layoffs the future?
The Sun WFH WINS OUT 5 (more) reasons you might not want to go back to the office
Marketplace Work at the office, work from home or both? Companies are still deciding what’s best.
FastCompany What the future of hybrid work will (and won’t) look like, according to 27 business leaders
The Atlantic How a Recession Could Weaken the Work-From-Home Revolution
Bloomberg Remote Work Could Save Firms $206 Billion and Ease Pressure on the Fed
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
Fortune A huge number of employees are rebelling against in-office mandates. The battle is just beginning
Quartz Only half of workers asked back to the office full-time are actually going
Vox Why the return to the office isn’t working
Fortune NYC office life is finally bouncing back, but there’s still a long way to go
The Washington Post Long Covid Is Showing Up in the Employment Data
Financial Times Elon Musk demands Tesla employees show up to the office full-time
Bloomberg Are Workers More Productive at Home?
Reuters Analysis: Elon Musk opens door to a Tesla talent exodus
Bloomberg More People Are Moving to Manhattan Than Before the Pandemic
The Guardian Elon Musk tells employees to return to office or ‘pretend to work’ elsewhere
Fortune An Elon Musk takeover could end Twitter’s permanent work-from-home policy
CNN The future of work from home
CBC As Elon Musk orders Tesla staff back to the office, many tech companies are doing the opposite
The New York Times The Office Monsters Are Trying to Claw Their Way Back to 2019
Financial Times Elon Musk demands Tesla employees show up to the office full-time
The New York Times Elon Musk to Workers: Spend 40 Hours in the Office, or Else
Bloomberg Elon Musk’s Demand Staffers Stop ‘Phoning It in’ May Cost Him Talent
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’
Forbes An Unexpected Perk Of Remote Work: It’s Easier To Job Hunt
Fortune As the return-to-office debate rages in the U.S. and Europe, the matter is already settled in Asia

May 2022

San Francisco Chronicle Is the future of the office the end of the office?
Business Insider Forcing staff to return to the office full time is ‘unrealistic’, say senior execs at Davos
Barrons Where did all the workers go?
Bloomberg Nearly Half of Office Visits This Year Are for Once a Week
Marketwatch Elon Musk vs. the Great Resistance. CEOs and employees are locked in a battle of wills over returning to the office.
The Economist The future of public transport in Britain
The Times Today’s culture war over working from home is no place for government
The Times Britons work from home while Europe goes back to the office
Bloomberg High Pay, Unlimited Vacation. Welcome to Wall Street
Bloomberg Goldman’s Unlimited Vacation Is a Mirage for Workaholic Bankers
Fortune Tech companies are struggling to navigate hybrid work. Here’s why sorting it out will take time
The Globe and Mail Is thinking in extremes getting in the way of hybrid work working?
San Francisco Chronicle Here’s exactly how much remote work is to blame for the surge in home prices
Time Lesson from JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs: Take a Hard Line on Return-to-Office at Your Own Risk
Stateline As Remote Work Persists, Cities Struggle to Adapt
Marketplace That line in the sand about going back to the office? It keeps moving.
Axios Employers are allowing more remote work days
The Wall Street Journal The Fed Is Driving the Economy Without Knowing Its Speed Limit
The Wall Street Journal Pocket Squares and Printers That Work—the Surprise Joys of Being Back in the Office
Financial Times UK ahead of European peers on shift to working from home
Bloomberg Return-To-Office Plans Unravel as Workers Rebel in Tight Job Market
Bloomberg Expect a ‘permanent change’ of 25% working days from home: Stanford professor
The Guardian Let them eat cheese… working from home is here to stay
ABC News The Great Resignation: Its origins and what it means for future business
BBC Law firm says staff can work from home – for 20% less pay

April 2022

Bloomberg How Covid-19 Transformed the U.S. Economy
Forbes How Remote Work Has Influenced The Multifamily Space, Perhaps Forever
The Guardian Five things every employer should know about making hybrid really work
Forbes Will Working From Home Cripple City Budgets?
The Atlantic Why Americans Are Leaving Downtowns in Droves
The Wall Street Journal What if the Optimal Workweek Is Two Days in the Office, Not Three?
The New York Times Should a Morning Staff Meeting Feel Like Homeroom?
Forbes Will Working From Home Cripple City Budgets?
The Times Jacob Rees-Mogg’s war on WFH ‘skivers’ is wrong
USA Today Gas prices, inflation, make some want to work from home even as offices call workers back
The Wall Street Journal Several Million U.S. Workers Seen Staying Out of Labor Force Indefinitely
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
Yahoo! ‘Long Social Distancing’ Will Keep Millions of Americans Out of the Workforce
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
The National Desk ‘Long social distancing’ could remove millions from workforce indefinitely
The Wall Street Journal California Considers the Four-Day Workweek
The New York Times Welcome Back to the Office. Isn’t This Fun?
New York Post ‘Long social distancing’ could keep US workers on sidelines indefinitely
Bloomberg One or Two Days in the Office Is the ‘Sweet Spot’ of Hybrid Work
Marketplace Businesses need staffing strategies to deal with ongoing COVID-19 surges
The New York Times As Remote Work Becomes Permanent, Can Manhattan Adapt?
The Economist How to make hybrid work a success
BBC The entry-level workers earning six-figure salaries
The Washington Post The return-to-office perk your boss won’t mention: Gossip is back on
LA Times Workers are suing their bosses to get their work-from-home costs reimbursed
Business Insider New Yorkers love working from their shoebox apartments
The Washington Post Five Days a Week in the Office? It’s Better for Everyone
NY Magazine (The Cut) Will Some of Us Social Distance Forever?
Fox Will traditional office hours become a relic in post-pandemic workplaces?

March 2022

The Wall Street Journal Capital Spending Boom Helps Raise Productivity, Contain Costs
LA Times That big tech exodus out of California turns out to be a bust
The Guardian America is entering the great experiment of hybrid work
Forbes Why Both Remote And In-Office Workers Are Demanding Higher Pay
Bloomberg New Yorkers Plan to Cut Time Spent in the Office by Half, Survey Finds
Chicago Tribune Companies are calling workers back to offices, again. But it might not be for five days a week anytime soon.
The Wall Street Journal What if Working in Sweatpants Unleashed Your Superpowers?
Bloomberg Remote-Work Experts Are in Demand as Return to Office Begins Anew
The Boston Globe Thank God it’s . . . Wednesday? Hybrid work is scrambling the days as we knew them.
San Francisco Chronicle What’s at stake for downtown San Francisco, as companies compel people back into offices — for real, this time
The New York Times Researchers find an ongoing commitment to pandemic behaviors. They call it ‘long social distancing.’
The Wall Street Journal Women Embrace Flexible Working, but Economists Say It Could Hinder Their Careers
The Wall Street Journal How the Pandemic Broke Silicon Valley’s Stranglehold on Tech Jobs
Wired The Great Tech Hub Exodus Didn’t Quite Happen
Bloomberg Triple Take
Business Insider 5 million people have moved to a new area because of remote work since 2020. Another 19 million could still follow.
Time Return to the Office? Not in This Housing Market
Financial Times The office is fine but the commute is still atrocious
Bloomberg Remote-Work Experts Are in Demand as Return to Office Begins Anew
BBC Should in-office workers be paid more?
Seattle Times Remote jobs can change work for good — if you work in the right place
Mercury News Google and Twitter reopenings launch grand experiment on the future of Silicon Valley workers

February 2022

San Francisco Chronicle Mayor Breed wants office workers to return to S.F., but not everyone is on board
Time When No One Really Wants to Return to the Office
The Times Covid has changed the way we work and there’s no going back
Business Insider How to manage hybrid teams
CBS Many Bay Area Companies Unsure When To Bring Workers Back
Newsweek You Can’t Fix the Housing Crisis With Houses. We Need New Cities
The Atlantic The Five-Day Workweek Is Dying
LA Times Work life will never be the same. We need some in-person days and some remote
Forbes Less Deodorant, Fewer Showers, No Makeup: The Nine Extra Minutes Some Americans Sneak By Working Remote
Fortune The prophet of remote work says go ahead and do your household chores while nobody’s looking

January 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
The Wall Street Journal Workers Care More About Flexible Hours Than Remote Work
Bloomberg Business Work From Home Is Becoming a Permanent Part of How Jobs Are Done
CBS State Farm Hiring 3,400 Employees, Including Some Fully Remote Workers
The Economist Will remote work stick after the pandemic?
BBC Why a wide-scale return to the office is a myth
CNBC Expect ‘huge battles’ over working from home between employees and bosses soon, says Stanford professor who’s studied remote work for 20 years
Forbes Roughly Half Of Hybrid Employees Will Follow Their Boss Into The Office
NBC News Full return to office is ‘dead,’ experts say — and remote is only growing
LA Times Podcast: Work from home, get spied on by your boss
Barrons I’ve Been Studying Work-from-Home for Years. Here’s What’s Coming.
The San Francisco Chronicle Omicron is disrupting the return to offices. Why these workers don’t ever want to go back
BBC Is finding a ‘new normal’ in the workplace impossible?
USA Today Omicron pauses return to office plans
WSJ MarketWatch ‘Firms not offering this are missing out’: Hybrid home/office work is equivalent to a 10% pay raise, Stanford economist says
2021 (113 mentions)

December 2021

Financial Times Nick Bloom: ‘It is becoming pretty clear now that hybrid working is here to stay’
The Economist A year in four charts
The San Francisco Chronicle Why these 6 Bay Area residents joined The Great Resignation
The New York Times When it comes to returning to the office, more companies are asking workers to stay tuned
Time Here’s How Companies Are Handling the Omicron Surge
NBC News Omicron delays quarter of companies’ reopening plans, survey says
USA Today Return to office paused (again) as COVID rages: Will we ever go back?
CNBC The return-to-office date is ‘history,’ business and health experts say
Business Insider Bill Gates’ tip for working from home: have a second screen that helps you stay in touch with colleagues
The Australian Why companies are saying yes to the demands of the avocado toast generation
Inc. The Zoom Ceiling: A New Barrier Holding Remote Workers Back (and What Leaders Can Do to Stop It)
Business Insider A Stanford professor’s tips for remote managers

November 2021

The New York Times The Worst of Both Worlds: Zooming From the Office
Forbes Technology Employees Risk Pay And Benefits To Push For Change—And In Many Cases, It’s Working
Los Angeles Times Is your company secretly monitoring your work at home?
The Telegraph Why working from home risks making women vanish from the career ladder
The Economist The fight over the hybrid future of work
The Economist How to ensure that the future of work is fair for all
The Washington Post Ask Help Desk: How remote workers can separate home and work lives
CNBC A vicious job market feedback loop is making the Great Resignation even worse — for employers
The San Francisco Chronicle The cool San Francisco office no longer matters for hiring. So what does?

October 2021

The Economist Remote-first work is taking over the rich world
The Economist Enter third-wave economics
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?
Al-Jazeera Home vs office: What is the best hybrid work mix for workers?
The San Francisco Chronicle: I s shoplifting forcing Walgreens to cut back in S.F.? Data on the closing stores puts the claim into perspective
Daily Mail Dashcam footage shows brazen smash-and-grab thieves breaking into parked car and snatching bags in crime-ridden San Fran
Le Monde Sommes-nous plus efficaces en télétravail ?
The Washington Post The Great Pandemic Work From Home Experiment Was a Remarkable Success
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

September 2021

The Economist Wave Goodbye to the Handshake
The Wall Street Journal Companies Use Overtime to Solve Worker Shortages. That May Cost Them More Workers.
Handelsblatt Dieser Stanford-Professor fordert mehr Gehalt für alle, die nicht im Home-Office arbeiten können
The Boston Globe Is the baby boomers’ long reign coming to an end?
The Wall Street Journal Work in the Covid-19 Era: What the Numbers Say About Vaccine Mandates, Quitting and More
Bloomberg Interview with Steven Davis (starting at 11:22)
The New York Times Goodbye handshakes, hello, “Hello”
CNN The Post-Covid-19 World: Did the pandemic kill cities?
The New York Times The Work-From-Home Economy and the Urban Job Outlook

August 2021

Inc.com Three Research-Backed Tips for Successfully Implementing a Hybrid Work Policy
The Wall Street Journal How Employee Benefits May Change in a Hybrid Workplace
The Economist Why Women Need the Office
Bloomberg The Hybrid Work Revolution Is Already Transforming Economies
CNN How to make the days that you’re in the office really count
The Washington Post Gen Z Wants to Go Back to the Office, Just not Full-Time
The New York Times Delta Variant Hasn’t Yet Changed Many Return-to-Office Plans
Business Insider Employers are waging a war over work from home. WFH is winning.
The New York Times Will Remote Workers Get Left Behind in the Hybrid Office?
The Wall Street Journal Cable, Internet Companies Stand to Gain From Broadband Funding in Infrastructure Bill
Bloomberg Central Banks Are Learning to Live With Covid

July 2021

Bloomberg Who’s really supposed to pay for your commute?
Bloomberg Fast Internet Everywhere Could Add $160 Billion to U.S. Economy
Reuters Universal access to high-speed internet will make home-based work more productive, study
Axios Universal internet access would boost remote work productivity
The Wall Street Journal The Boss Wants You Back in the Office. Like, Now.
WSJ MarketWatch Who wins and loses in the return to the office — and how to avoid a ‘diversity crisis’
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
Financial Times Covid uncertainty means permanent change for managers
CNBC News organizations are taking different approaches to how often employees will come back to the office
Business Insider New starters can expect less choice over where they work in post-pandemic hybrid plans, says remote work expert
The Economist Covid-19 has persuaded Americans to leave city centres
The Economist Office re-entry is proving trickier than last year’s abrupt exit
The Economist The future of Silicon Valley headquarters

June 2021

The Globe and Mail Implementing hybrid work? Don’t let your employees pick which days to be out of office, experts argue
Inc. Parents Want to Work From Home. Here’s Why They Shouldn’t, a Stanford Professor Says
The Economist The future of Silicon Valley headquarters
The New York Times The American Renaissance Has Begun
The Wall Street Journal Work Flexibility, Popular With Employees, Is Hardly a Holy Grail
Bloomberg Wealth Dreams of Working From a Beach Risk Turning Into a Tax Nightmare
San Francisco Chronicle Home values sank in these S.F. neighborhoods, thanks to the ‘doughnut’ effect
The Atlantic Winners and Losers of the Work-From-Home Revolution
The Times Looking forward to getting back to the office? Here’s why you shouldn’t
Los Angeles Times How work will change permanently after the pandemic
PBS News Hour How a rise in remote employment may impact post-pandemic work life
BNN Bloomberg Support for hybrid work model growing, but choice to WFH still seen as a perk
Bloomberg Wealth Americans Are Done With 5-Days a Week in the Office. Here’s What That Means for the Economy
Business Insider Companies could invite a ‘minefield’ of lawsuits if they let employees choose how often they work remotely, economist says
MarketWatch Are property prices in your neighborhood still rising? Blame it on the ‘donut effect’

May 2021

The Economist An investment bonanza is coming
The Economist The Square Mile is a ghost town. It will stay that way
The Economist How the pandemic has upended the lives of working parents
Austin Business Journal A pay cut to work from home? Many employees would take it
The New York Times There’s an Exodus From the ‘Star Cities,’ and I Have Good News and Bad News
The Washington Post The economic recovery is getting messy. Just ask working women.
The Economist A new age of suburbanisation could be dawning
The New York Times The ‘Hybrid Office’ Could Be Great. It Could Also Be Hell.
Bloomberg CityLab The Death and Life of the Central Business District
The Telegraph Six reasons why working from home will stick around
Reuters Sticking with remote work? Businesses are betting on it
The Globe and Mail Remote work has boosted Canada’s hot housing market, but how long will the boom last?
Bloomberg Businessweek Productivity Is Finally Looking Up, and the Gains Could Lift Growth

April 2021

Bloomberg Economics Work From Home to Lift Productivity by 5% in Post-Pandemic U.S.
The New York Times How to Navigate the Postpandemic Office
BBC Sounds A part-time return to the office?
Marketplace Will companies need to offer remote work post-pandemic?
Newsweek Employees Balk at End to Remote Work: ‘Going Back to the Office Is Stupid”
Business Insider America’s best work-from-home expert is bracing for turmoil
The Times Pluses and minuses of the return to business as usual
The Atlantic You’re Gonna Miss Zoom When It’s Gone
Reset Work What research says about how to make hybrid work succeed
The Wall Street Journal U.S.’s Long Drought in Worker Productivity Could Be Ending
NewsRadio Working from your living room in your PJ’s can be pretty productive!
The Economist The Rise of Working from Home

March 2021

The Wall Street Journal How Remote Work Is Reshaping America’s Urban Geography
BBC The bosses who want us back in the office
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.
The Washington Examiner Pandemic legacy: Two remote days of work a week likely to be the norm, research finds
The Guardian Our research shows working from home works, in moderation

February 2021

BBC How your space shapes the way you view remote work
The Washington Post We’ve been cooped up with our families for almost a year. This is the result.

January 2021

The New York Times How to Keep Internet Trolls Out of Remote Workplaces
ABC How we’ll be working in 2021 and beyond
The Wall Street Journal Is a Home Office Actually More Productive? Some Workers Think So.
2020 (26 mentions)

December 2020

Bloomberg The Work-From-Home Boom Is Here to Stay. Get Ready for Pay Cuts
The Wall Street Journal COVID-19 USHERS IN A NEW ERA OF FULL-TIME TRAVEL
Bloomberg Hybrid Working Is Here to Stay Post-Pandemic: Stanford’s Nicholas Bloom
Bloomberg Opinion The new battles to come over working from home
Financial Times What can we learn from the great WFH experiment?
World Economic Forum COVID-19: Most American workers want to keep working from home
Reuters Couch or cubicle? Vaccine may not lure Americans back to the office

October 2020

The Washington Post Americans might never come back to the office, and Twitter is leading the charge.
The Economist Zoom and gloom: The transition to remote work is welcome. But it will be painful
CNBC Make it Stanford professor on the new remote work economy: A ‘productivity disaster’ and ‘ticking time bomb for inequality’
The Washington Post Not even a pandemic can break rich cities’ grip on the U.S. economy

September 2020

The Washington Post Working From Home in a Pandemic Is Not Shirking It

August 2020

The Washington Post Zoom went down for hours, disrupting schools and businesses

July 2020

The New York Times Is the Five-Day Office Week Over?
The Wall Street Journal Does a Raise or Remote Work Sound Better?
BBC The remote work experiment that upped productivity 13%

June 2020

The Wall Street Journal Google’s Extended Home Stay Isn’t for Everyone
PBS News Hour American skyscrapers face an uncertain future amid coronavirus
BBC Radio 4 Curing Our Productivity Problem
The New York Times What If Working From Home Goes On…Forever?
The Economist New research casts light on the pandemic’s effects on resource allocation

May 2020

The New York Times What If You Don’t Want to Go Back to The Office?
The New York Times Many Facebook Employees to Work From Home Permanently
The New York Times White-Collar Companies Race to Be The Last to Return to the Office
PBS News Hour Could the pandemic usher in a new era of working from home?
The Atlantic Work From Home is Here to Stay
Undated (1 mentions)

Undated

BBC Radio 4 The highs and lows of working from home