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How working from home could revitalise rust belt cities

  • Written by Michel Serafinelli, Lecturer in Economics, University of Essex
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For years, we have been promised a work-from-home revolution, and it seems that the pandemic has finally brought it to pass. In April this year, at the height of the first wave of coronavirus, 47% of people in the UK were working from home, the vast majority of them doing so because of the pandemic. In a sense this is overdue: the...