The Importance of Working From Home

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We got better at overcoming some of these challenges remotely during the pandemic, didn't we? We did. The technology itself has gotten better as well. Beyond the technology, which is human capital, which is really just the skills that people bring to their day to day work. A series of studies have concluded that workers work a lot better together in terms of training each other and mentoring young employees when they're together in an office setting.

The burning of burial grounds in the northern region of the country suggests that authorities are destroying evidence. If these claims are proven true, will the government be held accountable? In news that might please your boss, emerging research suggests that working from home is stifling productivity (10:36). And honouring the life of a Ukrainian civil-rights campaigner (19:22).

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