Work-from-home goes pandemic to permanent
b'Twitter says its staff can work from home as long as they want. The head of Shopify says \\u201coffice centricity is over.\\u201d OpenText is shuttering half of its offices, reducing its workforce and shifting 2000 employees to remote work. COVID-19 forced hundreds of millions of employees to temporarily work from home, but companies are starting to change their remote work strategies from \\u201cpandemic\\u201d to \\u201cpermanent.\\u201d\\n\\nToday on Front Burner, NPR reporter Bobby Allyn explains what\\u2019s driving the enthusiasm for remote work in Silicon Valley, and the employee surveillance tools he calls a \\u201cmorale destroyer.\\u201d Then, author and UN Happiness Committee member Jennifer Moss tells us who working from home is and isn\\u2019t working for.'