How a Recession Could Weaken the Work-From-Home Revolution

Today’s major tech companies are signaling that people don’t need offices to maintain operational effectiveness. If this sentiment maintains, these tech companies may no longer need Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, or Boston as talent-generating headquarters. Instead, they can move to cheaper suburban or rural areas of the same city or another... See more

On one hand, this gives us a sense of how big the opportunity is to create the infrastructure to support the tens of millions of people now or soon to be working from home. On the other (more troubling) hand, this data paints a distressing picture of how many people don’t have “portable” professions and have little recourse until things get back to... See more

Working from home, our connection to the office weakens, and our connection to the world outside the office expands. At the kitchen counter, hunched over your computer, you are as close to the people and communities on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram as you are to the Slack messages and chats of your bosses and colleagues. By degrees, the remote e... See more

weaken the spatial relationship between work and home.