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Collected Item: “Working from home has its advantages, but employees miss their coworkers”

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Working from home has its advantages, but employees miss their coworkers

What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?

news article, video

Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.

This article and accompanying video discuss what employees miss most in the new teleworking situations created by the pandemic and what aspects of this situation they hope to have addressed after the pandemic recedes. The lack of interaction and socializing with coworkers is viewed as the major disadvantage to teleworking for individuals in the survey cited.

Use one-word hashtags (separated by commas) to describe your story. For example: Where did it originate? How does this object make you feel? How does this object relate to the pandemic?

cooperation, socializing, boundaries, remote work, teleworking, children, commuting, disadvantage, advantage, coworker

Enter a URL associated with this object, if relevant.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/09/there-are-pros-and-cons-to-working-from-home.html

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

Jessica Dickler

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2021-03-21
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