We all remember the day we were sent home from work for the last time in 2020. As offices across the country shut down, employees packed up their workstations, likely anticipating a return in a week or two. But more than a year and a half later, plenty of those employees still haven’t returned to those desks, and our collective work world now exists almost entirely within our computer screens.
At the beginning of the pandemic, it was estimated that 37% of all jobs in the U.S. could be done remotely, according to a 2020 white paper by the Becker Friedman Institute for Economics at the University of Chicago. But at the time, just a 7% of American workers had ever worked in a completely remote setting.
