– The remote work double bind. The Wall Street Journal had a buzzy feature this week on how women are “falling behind” in the return to office wave. According to recent labor market data, 36% of employed women were WFH in 2024, compared to 29% of men. While 34% of men reported working from home the prior year, the figure for women stayed basically flat.
Of the biggest workforce changes since the COVID-19 pandemic, the ability to work from home has been one of the most controversial—and career-altering. WFH was helpful to women, in particular, enabling many to stay in the workforce who otherwise may have been sidelined to care for children or other family members when the world shut down, a dynamic that’s been covered extensively here and elsewhere.
The tension here is that while the flexibility may help women manage work and caregiving responsibilities, it can also come with financial risks. CEOs have made it clear they want to see workers in the office, not
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