The disappearing transit rail blues

While federal workers and Google employees ferociously defend their God-given right to do their jobs in their pajamas and never see their bosses in the flesh, almost everyone else actually works at work.

Less than 20% of U.S. workers consider themselves “remote” workers, according to the latest figures from the Census Bureau. Those slippers-wearing laptop warriors overwhelmingly live in and near big cities: Washington and San Francisco have many remote workers, as well as San Jose, California, and Austin, Texas. That is, tech and government are the two industries that haven’t demanded people to come back to work.