Michael R. Strain, Columnist

The Future of Work in America Is in the Office

Under “work from anywhere,” career opportunities for young people would diminish, and lifetime productivity would fall.

June 20, 2020 at 12:00 PM UTC

Michael R. Strain is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. He is director of economic policy studies and Arthur F. Burns Scholar in Political Economy at the American Enterprise Institute. He is the author of “The American Dream Is Not Dead: (But Populism Could Kill It).”

This can’t last forever.
Photographer: Michael Short/Bloomberg

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Ever since the coronavirus sent millions of people home to work, people have been predicting that remote work will endure after the pandemic is over.

Color me skeptical.