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Remote work is underrated

It'll be better when you're not stuck in the house

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Matthew Yglesias
Apr 28, 2021
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For over a year, most white-collar workers have been doing our jobs primarily remotely as a response to the pandemic. We’ve been doing so mostly with off-the-shelf tools that have existed for a while — phones and email augmented by chat apps (Slack and Microsoft Teams) and videoconferencing (famously Zoom, but there are many others) and the fact that ge…

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