> American office-workers now work completely from home; this policy will last until the end of 2020 for many and will likely shift millions of office jobs to fully-remote workers.
Justifying the word "likely" is key here, surely?
Justifying the word "likely" is key here, surely?
The assumptions here are obviously strong and wrong but it does seem like "low millions" is probably the right order of magnitude.
Moreover we can expect highly-regarded companies like Facebook and Twitter to be bellwethers for the rest of industry. If their remote work experiments succeed, I suspect expansion will follow rapidly (I expect the reverse if they fail).
[0] https://news.uchicago.edu/story/much-us-staying-home-how-man... [1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/ezequielminaya/2020/04/03/cfos-...
The word “surely” should be justified here, most likely.