Economics

Work-From-Home Spurs Blue-Collar Americans to Seek Career Shifts

  • Workers leave industries like construction for office jobs
  • Flexibility, benefits cited by employees trying to make move

Workers at a manufacturing facility in East Longmeadow, Mass.

Photographer: Adam Glanzman/Bloomberg
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The pandemic shift to working at home has spurred blue-collar Americans -– who’ve largely been left out of that trend -– to seek a career change.