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by killjoywashere 3370 days ago
Conversely, "living where you work" is traditionally associated with human trafficking (what we call it now that it involves Asian and South American victims. In West Virginia we just call it "company towns") for brutally good reasons.

Yet, remote work is not a panacea. I work intensely locally (in a hospital) and also very remotely (in a research collaborative) and the remote work has real challenges.

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Nothing is a panacea, but what if just 10% of people remoted instead of driving to work and back, lunch and back 5 days a week?