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Re:Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever by chaostheory on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @02:50PM (#23158053)
Not forever, but it'll be longer than most people think.

We've tried to make a vaccine for the original SARS. It's been 12 years now and there's still no successful, safe vaccine for it. For COVID-19, if a vaccine is released within the optimistic 18 months, how safe will it be compared to vaccines that went through all the trials normally?

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Re:Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever by jshevek on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @03:59PM (#23158963)
I believe rconti was not talking about the duration of COVID19 issues, nor the duration of WFH. Rather, the evolution of economic norms given the assumption of sustained normalization of remote work.
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Re:Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever by chaostheory on Friday May 15, 2020 @03:17PM (#23196213)
I think you're mistaken, since WFH gained massive adoption due to the COVID-19 outbreak. It's also what I believe he's referring to by, "Yeah, it won't last forever." I don't appreciate the downvote either for a reasonable comment.
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