This is DJ Jazzy Mike.

Okay, sorry, continue.

Don't make fun of my swagger.

I like it.

It's all of God.

Hi, everyone.

Welcome to Gadget Lab.

I am Michael Collori, a senior editor at Wired, and I am joined remotely by my co-host, Wired senior writer, Lauren Good.

Hey, Mike, you know how on the past few weeks in the podcast we've been talking about how some things really, they feel like the before times?

Yes, as in like March.

Yeah, as in, you know, pre-March.

Today's show is really going to feel like the before times. Why is that? And that's because we are bringing Wired Senior Writer, Ariel Pardes, an original friend of the pod and co-host of the Gadget Lab podcast back on the show. Hey, yo, it's good to be back. It's great to have you. Today we're going to be talking about how Silicon Valley often leads the way on certain trends,

and sometimes it thinks it's ahead of the curve, but maybe it's giving itself a little bit too much credit.

Later, we're going to be talking about Clubhouse, the hot new social platform thing,

that's sort of a gab fest with the Silicon Valley elite. But first,

we're going to revisit a topic that we're all intimately familiar with at this point,

working from home. During the coronavirus pandemic, Silicon Valley tech companies were not

only some of the very first to tell employees to work from home, but they were also giving

some very conservative estimates for when people might be able to go back to the office. In some cases, offices won't reopen until 2021 in the earliest.

Last week, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey told employees that if their job allows for it, they would

be able to switch to working from home full time, even after offices reopen. Jack's other companies, Square, also announced the same policy this week.

Other companies are similarly relaxing their rules about working from home, and overall,

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