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    The Coronavirus Is Creating a Huge, Stressful Experiment in Working From Home

    <span>Even before</span> the pandemic struck, remote work was accelerating in the U.S. But the next few months will be a very strange test of our white-collar future.
    by Derek Thompson Mar 13, 2020 5 minutes
    Source: Ruby Aitken

    Several seconds after the invention of the personal computer, people predicted that our jobs would eventually be emancipated from the office, and home would be the thrilling future of work.

    Consider me your correspondent from the future. And let me tell you, as someone working from home this week, it’s not entirely thrilling. My desk is a kitchen counter, the constant cleaning of which makes for good procrastination, and my cafeteria is an emergency-stocked fridge, the routine raiding of which makes for even better procrastination.

    [Read: The problem with telling sick workers to stay home]

    Joining me this week are hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of people taking refuge from the coronavirus. Not all, to be sure. According to the , only 29 percent of Americans can work from home, including

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