![]() It also brings higher rewards, including emotional ones that are no less important than the pragmatic sort. Physical proximity brings higher risks (once of death or injury by an enemy, today of a face-to-face snub, more painful than a mean tweet, or of a covid-19 infection). More Summer reads * The Economist explains who controls the Arctic * Our obituaries editor picks the five best biographies ever written * What’s at stake in Ukraine is the direction of human history, writes Yuval Noah Harari * The pandemic has given economists a new lease of life _Ĭompared with that, virtual collaboration is like evaporated milk with 60% of its water removed: safer, mostly up to the job but a sterile version of face-to-face interaction that leaves an unsatisfying aftertaste. That can-admittedly unreliably and in ways that are difficult to measure-spur spontaneity and lead to new ideas. Yet even in duller corporate settings, walking down a corridor, washing hands in the bathroom or making yet another cup of coffee in the kitchen, you are only seconds away from a chat or a joke. ![]() Not every workplace is as informal as The Economist’s (with its deadpan humour and discussions of muscle tone and QE, alcohol consumption and the equity risk premium). There is another, more elusive reason why women who do not return to the office are missing out. If more women work from home, and take on an even greater share of family responsibilities, the result may be an ever-bigger gender pay gap and an ever-harder glass ceiling. A recent British government report warned that their uptake may be unequal between the genders. In the wake of covid-19 flexible work arrangements are less stigmatised (for now). ![]() One pre-pandemic study on work-life balance suggested that women were likelier than men to experience “flexibility stigma”. Your columnist, a guest female Bartleby, finds that the office offers a welcome break from the never-ending duties of housekeeping and parenting. It can be tiresome to be many things at the same time. Female managers often end up playing the conventional male and female roles, leading the pack while also nurturing those left behind. Such decisions are completely understandable-not least because besides more responsibilities at home, women’s lot at work can be no picnic, either.
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