Part 2: What I Learned About Working From Home While Reporting About Working From Home
Conversations with colleagues are much more human, and my back has never felt better.
Illustration: Oscar Bolton Green for Bloomberg Businessweek
In the past five months, I’ve reported extensively on working from home. Thriving in this situation is hard, but there have been some positive aspects to it. Here are some of my biggest takeaways:
So much excellent programming is now online. Forget painstaking rollouts and years of strategic vision meetings. Companies are throwing their services online in a mass act of crisis innovation. For example, the Kripalu Center, a leader in yoga- and mindfulness-based education, was previously accessible only if you went to Stockbridge, Mass. Now it’s available anywhere for $19.99 per month. The L.A. Dance Project app offers great classes for kids and adults for $9.99 a month, and you don’t have to be in Los Angeles.