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Who's wearing Crocs right now?
Don't be shy! I will start...
... My name is Andy, and I wear Crocs when I WFH 😅​
#Crocs #WFH #WorkFromHome

A new equilibrium: COVID-19 lockdowns and WFH persistence
Laura Ketter, Todd Morris, Lizi Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16671 https://

A new equilibrium: COVID-19 lockdowns and WFH persistence
This paper documents a robust link between COVID-19 lockdowns and the uptake and persistence of working from home (WFH) practices. Exploiting rich longitudinal data, we use a difference-in-differences strategy to compare office workers in three heavily locked-down Australian states to similar workers in less affected states. Locked-down workers sustain 43% higher WFH levels through 2023 - 0.5 days per week - with a monotonic dose-response relationship. Persistence is driven by adjustments on bo…

I've been 'working-from-home' for 30yrs. Microsoft has enabled WFH since I joined in 1995 via Remote Access Services/RAS - over dial-up or ISDN.
This was a Microsoft strength: No one was ever out of touch or "off work hours". We all had laptops, cellphones, pagers, MCI concall accounts & ISDN lines at home. Everyone was "on" all the time. And we liked it.
✅ Flexible Work Was The Promise. The Infinite Workday Is The Reality. - Fobes

Flexible Work Was The Promise. The Infinite Workday Is The Reality.
New research from Microsoft reveals the rise of the infinite workday. Find out why flexibility is not enough and how to fix our broken rhythm on the clock.

Challenging Disability and Interaction Norms in XR: Cooling Down the Empathy Machine in Waiting for Hands
Yesica Duarte, Puneet Jain
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15481

Challenging Disability and Interaction Norms in XR: Cooling Down the Empathy Machine in Waiting for Hands
Virtual Reality (VR) is often described as the "ultimate empathy machine," framing disability as an experience to be simulated through such technologies, which can reduce disability to a spectacle of pity or inspiration. In response, we present Waiting for Hands (WfH), an interactive eXtended Reality (XR) installation that critiques this logic by: (1) repurposing interaction norms in XR through the creation of Alternative Controllers, and (2) staging an absurd XR performance using the built con…

There’s exactly 1 narrow way that it’s true. Before widespread #WFH, attackers often had an insurmountable barrier: no way into the business network from the Internet. At the last gig (2008) where I had to visit a “workplace” regularly, inbound remote access was officially non-existent & outbound Internet access all went through restrictive web proxies.

Kevin Beaumont (@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social)
Attached: 1 image This Daily Mail piece about security leaders thinking work-from-home means they will be crippled is horseshit, I'm not linking it. They've taken a survey about how security people think their businesses couldn't survive ransomware, and linked it to working from home. WFH isn't the problem: business IT and resilience being built on quicksand is the problem.

I decided to take the morning off and wanted to go somewhere different, so am currently sat in a Starbucks in Bury St Edmunds lol
#Freelance #WFH

WFH has made my quads very tight... I found that out when I started practicing the Asian/deep squats.
Calves and Achilles, oddly not so much of an issue.
I am trying to target flexibility/mobility with different stretching positions, and it is definitely making a difference.
#Mobility #Flexibility #Squats

Remote Work and Women's Labor Supply: The New Gender Division at Home
Isabella Di Filippo, Bruno Escobar, Juan Facal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08184 https://

Remote Work and Women's Labor Supply: The New Gender Division at Home
We study how increases in remote work opportunities for men affect their spouses' labor supply. Exploiting variation in the change in work-from-home (WFH) exposure across occupations before and after the COVID-19 pandemic, we find that women whose husbands experienced larger WFH increases are over 2 percentage points more likely to be employed, equivalent to a 4% rise relative to pre-pandemic levels. Evidence from time-use diaries and childcare questionnaires suggests these effects are driven b…