New Rules of Work
The Promise of Remote Work Has Not Yet Been Realized
In their new book Out of Office, Anne Helen Petersen and Charlie Warzel argue first we need to fix our broken relationship with our jobs.
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When the journalist couple Charlie Warzel and Anne Helen Petersen moved from Brooklyn to Montana in 2017, they thought time saved from their grueling subway ride to Manhattan would be replaced with quality of life indulgences such as hiking, kayaking, and skiing. But the extra time, they discovered, was simply absorbed by more work.
Millions of Americans experienced something similar during the pandemic’s mass remote-working experiment. Although much of corporate America was no longer stuck in traffic or slogging it on trains, the fusion of the home and the office actually made it harder to disconnect.