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Future of Work: Scenario Planning for COVID-19 Recovery

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  • Pan, Alexandra
  • Shaheen, Susan PhD

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The COVID-19 pandemic caused widespread lockdowns across the world in early 2020, with major implications to spatial and temporal commuting patterns as a result of increased work from home (also known as telework) activities. There has been a high degree of uncertainty on what work from home impacts will persist in the future. In this report, we first conduct a thorough review of news articles, published reports, and peer-reviewed literature to summarize telework trends. We also use scenario planning to bring together ten experts from academia, public sector, industry, and commercial real estate in two 1.5-hour long workshops to discuss the impacts of telework on transportation, housing, commercial real estate, and land use.

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  • Pan, Alexandra & Shaheen, Susan PhD, 2022. "Future of Work: Scenario Planning for COVID-19 Recovery," Institute of Transportation Studies, Research Reports, Working Papers, Proceedings qt23x277qd, Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Berkeley.
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    Social and Behavioral Sciences; COVID-19; telework; telemobility; travel behavior; commuting; transportation policy; land use;
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