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Opinion: Will the labor market's Great Reset change things for workers over the long term?
Opinion: Will the labor market’s Great Reset change things for workers over the long term?
Opinion by Megan McArdle
Columnist
July 11, 2021 | Updated yesterday at 4:19 p.m. EDT
Ten years ago, when I started writing a book on failure, I discovered something very odd: When people described the best thing that ever happened to them, they often also described what sounded like the worst thing that ever happened to them. Sure, some people cited kids or weddings or wonderful job opportunities, but others highlighted such notable events as getting fired, enduring crippling accidents or going to prison.
This was not just a matter of cheerfully making lemonade from life’s lemons. Many of these people were sincere. Many of them were right, as my own experience attests: The reason I ended up having a fulfilling career as a writer is that my management consulting job evaporated in the 2001 recession, and after two years of soul-grueling unemployment, I was unable to find another such job.
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Office workers are also having a rethink. After a year of Zoom meetings and two-minute commutes, many are reluctant to change out of their sweatpants and head back to the office. And some employers are getting ready to accommodate them. Ladders, a job-search site focused on positions paying more than $100,000 a year, says it has more openings for remote work than it does for jobs in any one city.
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Opinion by Megan McArdle
Columnist
July 11, 2021 | Updated yesterday at 4:19 p.m. EDT
Ten years ago, when I started writing a book on failure, I discovered something very odd: When people described the best thing that ever happened to them, they often also described what sounded like the worst thing that ever happened to them. Sure, some people cited kids or weddings or wonderful job opportunities, but others highlighted such notable events as getting fired, enduring crippling accidents or going to prison.
This was not just a matter of cheerfully making lemonade from life’s lemons. Many of these people were sincere. Many of them were right, as my own experience attests: The reason I ended up having a fulfilling career as a writer is that my management consulting job evaporated in the 2001 recession, and after two years of soul-grueling unemployment, I was unable to find another such job.
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Office workers are also having a rethink. After a year of Zoom meetings and two-minute commutes, many are reluctant to change out of their sweatpants and head back to the office. And some employers are getting ready to accommodate them. Ladders, a job-search site focused on positions paying more than $100,000 a year, says it has more openings for remote work than it does for jobs in any one city.
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