Pandemic Remote Work

This cluster focuses on the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on remote work, debating whether pandemic-era WFH signals a permanent shift to remote or hybrid models, its acceleration of trends, and distinctions from normal remote work.

📉 Falling 0.1x Career & Jobs
3,520
Comments
16
Years Active
5
Top Authors
#8215
Topic ID

Activity Over Time

2010
1
2012
1
2013
2
2014
1
2015
1
2016
7
2017
1
2018
1
2019
4
2020
945
2021
866
2022
681
2023
570
2024
259
2025
176
2026
4

Keywords

EVERYTHING IT FB US GP IBM HN WFH JIRA nytimes.com pandemic covid remote wfh remote work home working home accelerated work home working

Sample Comments

seydor Jun 3, 2022 View on HN

hasnt the pandemic been a much bigger shock than remote work ?

_JamesA_ Apr 3, 2021 View on HN

Is that still true in the work from home post covid era?

Exmoor Dec 12, 2020 View on HN

I believe the GP is referring to the pandemic causing most people to work from home and the likelihood that this will cause long-term changes in the way people work. Less teams sharing office space (concentration), and more collaboration from people working remotely.

jkaptur Jun 22, 2020 View on HN

Ask HN: do you make any distinction between "working from home" and "working from home during a pandemic"? I see a lot of people arguing that WFH is the new normal, citing long reopening timelines, their own preferences, increased productivity, Twitter's policy change, etc.But just a few years ago, IBM and Yahoo radically curtailed their WFH policies, and they made (what seemed to me to be) pretty credible arguments that the policies were being abused (WFH employees n

mukgupta Jul 13, 2020 View on HN

Might be a side-effect of working remotely because of covid

kenhwang Jul 13, 2020 View on HN

COVID related work from home adjustments is my guess.

icedchai Jan 9, 2022 View on HN

I think many were checked out already, Covid just accelerated it. The separation between home and work was blurred unexpectedly, during an extremely stressful time. People were forced into remote work. Many thought this to go on for a few months, not years.I also feel there are more meetings now than pre pandemic.

wahnfrieden May 9, 2023 View on HN

Covid WFH took me further - I would never work again if I can help it

eloisant Aug 9, 2023 View on HN

COVID didn't create WFH, it merely accelerated its spread.

JZL003 Nov 8, 2023 View on HN

It's not that i think anything is wrong, but isn't it strange there's no jump I see in WFH comments during the pandemic when everyone was doing it