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Now here's today's news, discerned differently.

Jackie Benetua-Rolins is communications and engagement coordinator at Santa Cruz

Community Health Centers. Her two-year-old son has become a fixture in her daily Zoom meetings

with colleagues, waving at them in his pajamas. Before the pandemic, she worked in a small

cubicle back at the office. Now that she's working from home, she told the New York Times,

there is this softened, unfiltered, more honest version of ourselves

that I'm enjoying getting to know.

There is room to be forgiving and understanding with each other and ourselves,

and it's because we've all had to juggle.

She's one of millions of Americans taking part in an unprecedented social experiment. A Gallup poll found that a majority

of those now working from home would prefer to continue doing so as much as possible after the

pandemic. It's easy to see why. They are spending less time in the road.

The Times article cites a report that the average American who drives to work spends 54 hours a

year stuck in traffic. A 2014 study found that those who work from home are more productive.

They run less risk of being infected by colleagues. They have more

time for fitness during the day. A 2005 study found that job satisfaction increased with each

additional hours spent working remotely, though it stopped increasing after 15 hours working

remotely.

Telecommuting is obviously difficult for those in manufacturing or service jobs.

The health care heroes saving lives in this pandemic cannot work from home, nor can the frontline workers delivering food to stores and homes, or the police officers risking their

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