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It'll also be interesting to see the impact on housing. Lots of people probably don't have the space to set up for working from home well, particularly if you'r
by fencepost 6y ago
It'll also be interesting to see the impact on housing. Lots of people probably don't have the space to set up for working from home well, particularly if you're talking about families with 2 people working plus kids doing some amount of remote schooling.
Single? Viable. Young couple in a 1-bedroom apartment? Who's working at the new desk in the bedroom and who's at the kitchen table? Add a couple kids in and it just gets tougher.
Even if they weren't doing it before people are now going to be looking for an extra office-suitable bedroom.
- mmckelvy 6y agoIf you no longer have to commute to an office, presumably you can swap that 1 bedroom apartment for a house located a bit further afield.
- bobthepanda 6y agothat's assuming the only thing driving your desire for a 1 bedroom apartment is the desire to be next to an office. the current situation is weird in that COVID has disrupted nearly all non-home spaces, not just the office. But once restaurants, theaters, museums, nightlife etc. are back in business some will still desire to be near activities they're doing all the time. I'm personally interested in how this will really impact important working "third places" like coffee shops, libraries, and WeWork style spaces once people are allowed to go to those again.
- ffggvv 6y agoi’m confused why people have this impression... isn’t the expectation for the vast majority of people that the second this pandemic ends, were expected back in the office? and if that’s the case i can’t really go and buy a home in the suburbs