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In the age of interconnectedness, most people confront the idea of working from home only when they decide to wade through the forest of comments on their Great Aunt’s Breitbart repost and happen across a random comment from a sketchy dude with two friends and no profile photo on his account.
I don’t know if you’re aware, but you can make millions from the comfort of your own couch/home/home
office/bed/wherever you want — probably. All you have to do is click a variety of totally safe links that
will definitely not infect your computer/phone and send whatever remaining data Facebook doesn’t have
on you straight to Mark Zuckerberg’s evil laboratory that we all know he has hidden underneath whatever
California McMansion he is hiding from Congress in this week.
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But for real, many Americans are in fact making at least part of their living without heading to the office all the time. In 2016, 43% of American workers reported that they worked from outside the office at least part of the time. This marked an increase of 4% from 2012.
Americans are taking advantage of work-from-home opportunities with no significant decrease in
job satisfaction, performance, or earnings. It is likely that these advantages might stem from the fact
that the people with the ability to work flexibly are also the ones with higher rank and salary to begin with.
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created a job landscape for in-demand workers littered with caveats, concessions, and ever-complicating
contracts.
In the sports world, a.k.a. the land of muscle milk and shoe deals, telecommuting and the technological
boom has dramatically increased the responsibility of teams at all levels to produce and release content
online while simultaneously cutting staff to exactly the limit. Major sports teams with the money to
spread around still have beaucoups of communications staffers — the Wild have five different people
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With multi-talented workers and a slew of people interested in jump starting their careers in the industry,
these lower levels have many candidates to choose from who can sufficiently manage to do what
amounts to three or sometimes four jobs at one. In order to crack the sports world, many work in sales,
broadcasting, social, and marketing all at the same time.
And with the rise of live-streaming video, now teams don’t even have to budget for the extra hotel
room and meal money that a broadcaster would require. After all, why not just have that same jack
of all trades watch the game at home and do the work from there? They don’t need to be in the press
box to tweet, right?
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In a world where many teams are willing to limp along without any real growth online there will
always be situations like this wherein organizations do the bare minimum required to get the job
mostly done.
If this doesn’t sound appealing to you in the slightest, remember that you can always head over to
I appreciated the angle you took with this article to make a pretty mundane topic more interesting, but I was left wondering what other fields besides sports and the general American workforce have been most impacted by these trends.
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ReplyDeleteThis is really funny. I like the apparent sarcasm throughout the article, especially since it's just supposed to be the digital elevator speech of our research essays. Well done.
ReplyDeleteI love the way this blog post is set up. It gives me insight of your topic without sounding like a long wordy research paper. It also makes me think about how as a society we are finding new ways of working.
ReplyDeleteYou do a great job of making this a topic that people can relate to and not formal to a point that it may make people not as interested. It was written really well because you were still able to include your research. This is also a topic that I feel people do not hear much about so I found it interesting because I knew so little. There a lot of aspects at play and it does a good job at making people think about if they could do this.
ReplyDeleteLike the others said, I love the way this is set up. I love the use of screenshots and sarcasm. I think that being able to write in a sarcastic way is a huge talent, especially when writing something of this nature. When reading it sort of sounds like your sarcasm means you don't like the idea of working from home. Is that true?
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