It has delivered meals to displaced Wall Street traders working from Connecticut, and to guests attending “virtual galas” from home. Now, he said, “we don’t know what’s happening, what’s next.”This anxiety is widespread across the American economy. And remote work will be concentrated among the most highly paid workers in the most densely populated places. Employment in the downtown service economy — which depends on the spending of office workers, business travelers and tourists — has yet to recover from COVID’s blow. Job offers allowing fully remote work jumped from about 2% of openings to 6% to 7% after the pandemic hit, he noted.

Source: bd News24 September 03, 2021 08:03 UTC