From a newsletter sent by The Atlantic:

Today, we invited Joe Pinsker—who often writes about how work affects our quality of life—to share a bit of insight into his reporting on how the pandemic has motivated some employers to change long-standing features of the 9-to-5 office job.
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The phrase “the future of work” is so potent because everyone wants to know what it is, but by definition, it is never actually here. Yet during the upheaval of the past two years, the future of work—whatever it looks like—has felt just a bit closer than before.