After decades of being about to catch on, remote work may have finally arrived for good. But at what cost to our privacy and sanity?
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As its boosters have long argued, remote work offers a slew of obvious benefits. Companies save money on rent; employees don’t have to commute; and everyone, without the distractions of the office, can be more efficient. But for decades, telecommuting simply failed to take hold. On Episode 23 of The Politics of Everything, hosts Laura Marsh and Alex Pareene talk with the writer Richard Cooke about why that is. And now that Covid-19 has changed our habits so drastically, what does our historical reluctance to work from home augur for the post-pandemic future? Finally, Katie McDonough, a deputy editor at The New Republic, investigates the fantasy of escaping from work altogether, with a look at the politics of early-retirement advice. |
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