Art 1: The Work from Home Debate
As a young professional woman who has recently entered the workforce, I have not known work without the ability to do it from home in my sweatpants. According to Zippia (2023) , 50% of the U.S. labor force currently works remotely from home, and 9 out of 10 employees plan to continue working from home in the future. This newfound ability to perform our daily tasks in the comfort of our own homes is still hotly debated among company leaders, as the benefits and challenges of telework are still being discovered and questioned. But for the young professionals who have just entered the workforce post-pandemic, this type of hybrid environment is all we know— one with new rules and expectations that we have had to navigate ourselves. I wanted to discover what young professional women actually think and feel about work from home (WFH), if they are even doing it at all. Are these women tru...