🦄 Startups & VC 22h ago · Mal James

Rethinking remote work: surveys show people will give up 5 to 8% of their pay to work from home, but a 2026 study links remote work to more isolation, anxiety and depression — suggesting they may be underweighting the cost

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Rethinking remote work: surveys show people will give up 5 to 8% of their pay to work from home, but a 2026 study links remote work to more isolation, anxiety and depression — suggesting they may be underweighting the cost
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Here is something I have been turning over for a while. Most of us, given the choice, will give up real money to work from home — not metaphorical money but actual salary, the kind that pays rent.
In a survey of more than 30,000 Americans, over half valued the option to work from home two or three days a week at a pay raise of 5 percent or more, and nearly one in five put it at 15 percent or more. Stanford economist Nicholas Bloom also points to survey evidence that hybrid work “is worth a

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