I joined Insider in January, and before that I was a reporter and editor at Bloomberg News for 10 years. At Bloomberg I covered economics and tech, so I was already writing a lot of stories at the intersection of these two topics — for example, how new technologies were changing the labor market.
With the shift to WFH in the pandemic, it felt natural to double down on the changing nature of work. Anything related to the permanent transition to WFH. That's involved not only employers' overarching policies of whether and how often they'll let employees work from home — but also changes in pay practices as well as perks and benefits for a remote workforce, and things like flexible work hours too.
I think a lot of things about work and the workplace are up for grabs right now, so it's been really interesting watching companies announce all kinds of new policies. A lot of these initiatives haven't been tried on a large scale before. I think we're going to learn a lot about what works and what doesn't over the next few years. It depends on whether I'm writing or not. On days I'm writing, I'm holed up in our guest bedroom, where I've set up my home office.
When I'm not writing, my days are a combination of reading other outlets, talking on the phone with sources, catching up with colleagues, brainstorming new story ideas with my editor, and reading and replying to email. These are the days I take our puppy out to our local dog park more often too. war over WFH
. I had been wanting to write about companies backtracking on their post-covid WFH policies for a number of weeks, and it was when I saw the data from the economist Nick Bloom's survey that I found a way to clearly articulate what's going on — that workers, who want to work from home more often than their employers want them to, are winning.
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