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464. Will Work-from-Home Work Forever?

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What's the Most Important Component of a Pandemic?

The ability to work from home buffered the impact of the pandemic on many people's productivity and incomes, as well as sickness too. The fact that you have access to good coffee, or you can take a brisk walk, also makes working at home have other benefits too. And theoretically, if you're more satisfied or happier, that may lead, long term, to more productivity that we haven't even seen yet, right? That's right. I think what's rapidly changed is our ability to use the existing technology. It's never been adopted in mass like this. Expectations can be reset about what can be achieved. Emal was int uced right around the same time.

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