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The future of work looks hybrid: 43% of professional workplaces now offer hybrid arrangements, up from 20% in 2023. And those arrangements are popular with workers. .Management professors explore the trends: buff.ly/V5ID5Jy #WFH

US workers with remote-friendly jobs are still working from home nearly half the time, 5 years after the pandemic began

That’s a huge change from 2019, when remote work accounted for only 7% of the nation’s paid workdays, even if it’s a big decline from 2020.
The Conversation
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Americans are spending nearly 1.5 hours less outside their homes in 2023 than in 2003. New research shows the pandemic accelerated a long-term trend of staying in. Does this sound familiar? buff.ly/zzztMZJ
#wfh #sociallife #COVID19 #CovidIsNotOver

(Edit: Now with the right graph)

Time spent out of the house has been falling since 2003 Chart shows that there was a gradual but not constant decline from 2003 to 2020. In 2020, there was a steep drop-off in minutes per day spent outside the home due to the COVID- 19 pandemic. There's only been a slight recovery since then, and Americans spent nearly 1.5 hours less outside their homes in 2023 than they did in 2003.

America is becoming a nation of homebodies

Even after the pandemic lockdowns were lifted, out-of-home activities and travel remained substantially depressed, far below 2019 levels.
The Conversation
#COVID19 #CovidIsNotOver #wfh #sociallife

#WFH with #privacy? 85% of Brit #bosses snoop on staff
#Employers remain blissfully unaware/wilfully ignorant of the impact of #surveillance on staff
More than 3/4 of #UK employers admit to using some form of surveillance tech to spy on their #remoteworkers.
Most popular form of surveillance was monitoring active work hours, with 54% saying this was going on, and employees' emails and chat logs were also examined, while 15% said they went as far as tracking keystrokes.
theregister.com/2025/01/30/for…

WFH with privacy? 85% of Brit bosses snoop on staff

Employers remain blissfully unaware/wilfully ignorant of the impact of surveillance on staff
Connor Jones (The Register)
#privacy #uk #surveillance #wfh #bosses #employers #RemoteWorkers

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