Marketplace has a podcast out talking about a new AI system from Care AI. It is a platform that provides the ability for a remote nurse to be in patients' rooms and speak to and see them. What this system does is take over the non-critical but observational tasks with patients in a facility, freeing up the in-person nurses to do the essential hands-on care.

I love Freakonomics Radio and have been listening for about a decade.

I've been working from home continuously since 2001—sporadically even before that.

Although we've been working at home for more than 2 years now, there are still some protocols that we need to learn.

There are many and varied reasons as to why and how remote work is successful.

Given that staffing is difficult, the pandemic is risky and the work that reception does is all within a computer system...

I was a bit surprised by this statistic. There aren’t any good measures by the government at this point

In the 1990s, when I was working on the commercial Internet at IBM, I opened the door in a room and saw it filled with South Asian programmers. At that time I realized that the work I was doing was going to be done remotely. I decided to develop more of a domain skill rather than just a technical skill.

We’ve been working virtually on fire for a decade. We’ve had a lot of stumbles, lack of awareness of client’s view leading to high turnover, client staff actively undermining virtual staff, and many more lessons both big and small.

Nicholas Bloom, an Economics professor and a WFH expert, foresaw WFH before it became significant.