This is Motley Full Answers. I'm Alison Southwick and I'm joined as always by Robert Brokamp,

personal finance expert here at the Motley Fool. Hey, bro. Hey, Alison. In this week's episode,

Matt Frankel from the Motley Fool's Ascent team, joins us to talk about choosing the best broker or

robo advisor for you. And I'm going to explore if working remotely is a career limiting

move. All that and, well, really not much more than that on this week's episode of Molly Full

Answers. So, Alison, what's up? Well, bro, you could say there have been a number of workplace

revolutions over the course of history, from agrarian to industrial, from

factory floor to behind a computer, and now we are amidst another.

A million years ago in the spring of 2020, many Americans would go into an office spending

their days tapping at a computer, collaborating at a conference table, and Monday morning

quarterbacking the big

game at the water cooler. But then everything changed. And they had to figure out how to do it all from

home. It was awful. We hated it. We were so miserable. Zoom fatigue became a thing people

suffered from. Our backs were killing us from working at the kitchen table all day.

And if we wanted to talk about last night's episode of Mayor of Easttown, we had to accost our

co-workers online with Slack DMs like, I think it was the priest who killed her, but why is Guy

Pierce even here? That's now a written thing forever in your company's logs for HR to read, as opposed to the ephemeral

conversation in the elevator, which is what sentences like that should be. But then something

weird happened. It turns out Americans really liked working in their pajamas, having flexibility

to do other things during the day, or even moving entirely to a new town.

According to a recent CBS news poll, 60% of Americans, working Americans, that is,

that ideally, they want to work remotely, at least part of the time. And this is even more true

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