With the work-at-home lifestyle likely here to stay, people are taking things outdoors, creating spaces meant for privacy and comfort. [...]
More than a year and a half into the pandemic, working from home seems like an increasingly permanent proposition. Nearly 80 percent of business leaders and 70 percent of the general public said people would likely never return to offices at the rate they did before the coronavirus [...]
— The New York Times
Isolated working structures as small as 3x6 feet have been cropping up in high-density areas like London where the office and home have switched places, leaving opportunity at both ends for designers and manufacturers to meet the demands of remote workers whilst also providing space to answer cities' pressing need for affordable housing.
“You might find enlightenment or something from working in a tiny space,” one designer told the Times. Examples of the typology offer exciting glimpses into what could be the future of commuting for a large swath of the population. As many as 255 million people could be working remote full-time by the end of the decade.
The New York Times has more on the modular work pod revolution here.
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they're here to stay, just put them near a gas station with a bathroom
Darn. If only I had a cramped, claustrophobia-inducing space so I could get work done on my 26-acre nature preserve.
apparently get rich quick fleecing schemes based on the panic du jour are here to stay
shocking
I'm just shocked that it doesn't have a bullshit name like Jupe, or a Sheppard Fairey version.
You're onto something, b3ta. How about PODD, or PAUD, or PAWED?
In addition to a name there must be something about it that creates controversy and press coverage. Make it something political then put it on Twitter and rake in the cash.
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