The evolution of the American office
Make Me Smart
Marketplace
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🗓️ 2 July 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
It’s been about four years since the great remote work experiment took off for many employees who work computer-bound jobs. After plenty of back and forth between return-to-office mandates and work-from-home advocates, neither side really won. Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that the share of Americans doing some or all of their work from home has leveled off to about 35%. On the show today, The New York Times’ Emma Goldberg explains who’s working from home these days and how it’s impacting both employees and their bosses. Plus, the commercial real estate question looms large over the remote work debate.
Then, we’ll get into why the Joe Biden administration’s new protections for workers in extreme heat could be threatened by recent Supreme Court rulings and a potential second Trump presidency. And, the CEO of GS1, the company administering retail barcodes, didn’t see the QR code takeover coming.
Here’s everything we talked about today:
- “Work From Home Data Shows Who’s Fully Remote, Hybrid and in Person” from The New York Times
- “Research: How Remote Work Impacts Women at Different Stages of Their Careers” from Harvard Business Review
- “More Americans now prefer hybrid over fully remote work, survey finds” from Axios
- “Remote Workers Are Losing Out on Promotions, New Data Shows” from The Wall Street Journal
- “Dell said return to the office or else—nearly half of workers chose “or else'” from Ars Technica
- “Tesla delivered fewer vehicles to customers for the second quarter in a row” from The Verge
- “Biden to announce heat rules as climate-related deaths rise” from Politico
- “Fact check: Republicans, not Democrats, eliminated the Senate filibuster on Supreme Court nominees” from USA Today
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| 0:26.8 | All right, let's do it. Hey everyone. My name is Kimberly Adams and welcome back to Make Me Smart |
| 0:38.9 | where none of us is as smart as all of us. |
| 0:41.8 | I'm Kara Rizal. Thanks for joining us on this Tuesday, the second day of July. It has been give or take since |
| 0:49.6 | the pandemic change, transformed, altered perhaps for a long time what works like for a lot of Americans. |
| 0:58.4 | Not all of us by any means because there are some who never were able to work from home, but |
| 1:01.7 | for those of us were, it's been about four years and it does sort of seem like it's kind of a |
| 1:05.3 | new normal. |
| 1:05.9 | New data from the BLS, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, shows that the share of Americans doing |
| 1:10.0 | some or all of their work from home has pretty much leveled up about 35%. |
| 1:14.0 | Right and we want to learn more about what this new normal looks like and how it's |
| 1:19.4 | going for both employees and their bosses. So here to make a smart about this is Emma Goldberg. |
| 1:24.8 | She covers the future of work at the New York Times. Welcome to the show. |
| 1:29.2 | Thanks for having me on. It's great to be here with you guys. So first of all do you work from home or do you work in an office? |
| 1:38.0 | That is you know the key question. I work from the office about three days a week and the other two days a week I work from home. |
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