Many companies switched to full-time remote working during the pandemic. Will your employees go back to the office after the pandemic ends? Or do we experience the death of the office? Thomas Barwick / Getty Images
But predictions that working remotely will destroy the office are not new. Similar predictions were made by people in the 1970s when personal computers were on the rise. And they made the same predictions in the 1990s when the internet came along. However, instead of killing the office, the personal computer and the Internet just made the office more important than ever. Tech companies, for example, built these huge offices and placed them close together in places like Silicon Valley.
Some people predict that remote work has become indispensable and could revolutionize America’s economic map. Remote work could allow some workers to move from “superstar cities” like Seattle and New York to cheaper areas.
In this episode we scan the data, the research, the theories and bring you two indicators that debate the future of the office.
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