more than one-third of all remote hours are now spent in a location other than the home.
The now-common term “work from home” belies an important phenomenon in today’s economy: many people, when given the option to work remotely, are actually working from somewhere else. Before the pandemic, most people did not get to choose where to work. Now, the popular narrative is that many people are dividing their working hours between exactly two locations: an employer-provided workplace or the home office, whether that is a refined salon with specific thousand-page books or the humble living room couch.
People across the country are in fact choosing a wide variety of locations to take Zoom calls and answer emails, including friend’s houses, coffee shops, libraries, community centers and co-working spaces.
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