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Remote work, the death of Personal Privacy and the Spread of the Surveillance State

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Ridgewood NJ, the COVID pandemic saw the raise of “remote work” . Remote work, also called telecommuting, distance working, telework, teleworking, working from home, mobile work, remote job, work from anywhere, hybrid work and flexible workplace, is a work arrangement in which employees do not commute to a central place of work, such as an office building, warehouse, or store.

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Study: New Jersey Is the 7th Best State for Working from Home

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Ridgewood NJ, with 71% of people whose jobs can be done remotely working from home all or most of the time during the COVID-19 pandemic, the personal-finance website WalletHub today released its report on the Best States for Working from Home, as well as accompanying videos, in order to highlight which areas are thriving and which are struggling in this pandemic economy.

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Why Mental Health Matters While Staying at Home

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With the rapid spread of Covid-19 all over the world in 2020, many people have been forced to stay at home as a precautionary measure to minimize the rate of new infections. While the best thing we can do is to stay safe, the new normal is not easy. Spending a lot of hours indoors can have a huge toll on your physical, mental, and emotional health, especially if you’re used to moving up and down, interacting with many people, and engaging in different kinds of activities. As a matter of fact, many countries around the world have reported an increase in domestic violence and relationship problems among families.

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Reader says The next big shift will be work itself and working from home The technology already exists

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The next big shift will be work itself and working from home The technology already exists, but fairly soon we will see major corporations eliminating expensive office spaces where millions of people commute into every day to punch keyboards in buildings located in some of the most expensive places on earth. The cost benefits will drive this, and although there is a reluctance to go in this direction, as soon as one or two major companies start, it will happen quickly due to the obvious savings. This is going to impact public transport and commercial real estate in a big way. Forget about productivity dropping and people pretending to work, modern technology makes everything we do so measurable now, there’s no way you can pretend to work any longer.