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The Five-Day Workweek Is Dying
- If office occupancy never recovers, downtown areas will experience an extended ice age. Emptier offices will mean fewer lunches at downtown restaurants, fewer happy hours, fewer window shoppers, fewer subway and bus trips, and less work for cleaning, security, and maintenance services. This means weaker downtown economies and less taxable income fo... See more
from The Five-Day Workweek Is Dying by The Atlantic
Mark Fishman added 3y ago
- When the office is a place, there is a physical connection to colleagues. When the office becomes a group chat punctuated by Zoom all-hands meetings, switching jobs is practically as easy as logging out of one Slack account and logging into another.
from The Five-Day Workweek Is Dying by The Atlantic
Mark Fishman added 3y ago
- For some knowledge workers, Friday through Monday may come to occupy a murky space between weekday and weekend—a sort of work-play purgatory, where the once-solid walls between work and life become more porous. “Mondays and Tuesday are the fastest-growing days of the week for travel,” Airbnb’s chief executive, Brian Chesky, told me. “More people ar... See more
from The Five-Day Workweek Is Dying by The Atlantic
Mark Fishman added 3y ago
- Many employers are going to struggle through the transition to hybrid work. If they push too hard to get workers to come into the office, some people will just leave to preserve their independence. If employers fail to build any kind of tangible corporate culture, a lot of workers, feeling no sense of real community among their colleagues, will swi... See more
from The Five-Day Workweek Is Dying by The Atlantic
Mark Fishman added 3y ago