The COVID pandemic revealed that many workers can work from anywhere. Are cities ready to attract them? The future of cities and the future of work are intimately connected. They always have been. During the industrial age, rural farmers flocked to the urban centers, and the cities we know today were born. Now those workers, many of whom are so-called 'knowledge workers' are completely mobile, untethered from the offices that kept them in urban cores. Most cities are not ready for this new reality. The Current State of Work The COVID pandemic is winding down in most of the developed world, and economies are returning to normal. Are they really, though? After all, during the pandemic, nearly 80% of companies switched to at-home work. That's millions of experienced and educated people working from home. Furthermore, 47% of company CEOs have said they will make work-from-home permanent. This not only saves the company a lot of money that would otherwise go to real estate, o
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