2020 upended the world as we know it, and nowhere was this more evident than in the workplace. According to research from the National Bureau of Economic Research, around 50 percent of U.S. workers were working from home at the start of the pandemic. Nine months later, Upwork’s December 2020 “Future of Workforce Pulse Report” found that 41.8 percent of the American workforce continues to be fully remote. 

With permanent remote work likely here for the long haul, there’s never [...]

They’re not ‘just things,’ as some will try and tell you. Your home furnishings telegraph all kinds of messages and meanings — and not just to those who come to visit. The journalist LEE CULLUM does some translating. “Things contain people.” So said Dallas-born novelist Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey. They also contain ideas, memories, places. For Hailey, it was all of those when she furnished The English Room at her house in Los Angeles. In it, she put pieces that she and her [...]