PC Magazine - USA (2020-04)

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WFH on people, that number might go down next year. But then again, people
might get a taste for WFH and love it all the more.

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like to do it more.

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The struggle is real, however, when it comes to collaboration and loneliness.
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are at home, as you’d expect. Seven percent are at co-working spaces, and 3
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location, when necessary). And even those who are primarily WFH spend about
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home. This is surely going to change a lot in the next year, as the world lives
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percent of those surveyed worked for a company that allows everyone to work
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