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Remote Work and the New Normal

As someone who has disabilities which need relatively minor accomodations (one of those is a serious preference for working from home for various reasons) the topic of how recent events may change the job market for remote work has been on my mind as I read the news. Before the pandemic, created by the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, was a severely competitive field for remote work. Millennials with degrees and fresh faces out-jockeyed older and disabled folk who required different solutions than traditional office work, but still wanted to work to build a retirement. Many of my contemporaries expressed anger that those with much better ability to work outside the home, more youth and vigor and, frankly less tenure in life overall felt "entitled" to bypass the "work your way up" models we had all struggled through, like our grandparents and parents before us. "What right do kids these days have to *not* put in the groundwork just like we did?" they asked....