Working from home during pandemic found widening U.S. inequality

Longstanding inequalities in the U.S. labor market have worsened amid the coronavirus pandemic with working from home fuelling the divide, according to a Gallup report released on Wednesday. Read More

How Covid Changed The Workplace: It’s A Whole New World Out There

56% of 125 million full-time U.S. workers said they don’t have to be in the workplace anymore because they discovered—thanks to the pandemic—that they can do their jobs from home. Read More

Contributor: Work life will never be the same. We need some in-person ...

Working from home surged twelvefold between 2017-2018 and May 2020. The pandemic is the biggest shock to American working life since the shift to military production during World War II. Read More

Do We Know How Many People Are Working From Home?

The Labor Department, last week, released data indicating a decline in remote work: 72.5 percent of businesses said their employees rarely or never teleworked last year, up from 60.1 percent in ... Read More

Is Working From Home Really Working? - The New York Times

Quiet quitting. Working from home. The Great Resignation. Whatever you want to call it, the attitude of many Americans toward work appears to have changed during the long pandemic — and ... Read More

'Extreme inequality was the preexisting condition': How ... - ABC News

As 45 million Americans lost their jobs, U.S. billionaires made $584 billion. The novel coronavirus pandemic has only exacerbated income inequality, experts say, stretching the racial wealth gap ... Read More

After COVID: How the pandemic changed politics, work, faith and more

After the pandemic was declared in March 2020, stay-at-home orders and an overall state of panic among many employees meant millions of office workers would be working from home. Read More

Post-Pandemic Economic Outlooks Should Focus on Inequality: Experts ...

The pandemic has widened inequality, hitting vulnerable workers hard while making the rich richer. Amid this, experts are wary of looking only at overall growth to assess economic recovery. Read More