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In The time of COVID (from 6)

Yes, 24 months since they’ve had to face
their lonely, constrained flimsy cubicles
and those sleep-invoking staff meetings.

A new perk
In fact, by now many people working re-
motely, consider WFH an essential perk,
not an inconvenience, anymore.

In a January 2022 survey of 9,600 U.S.
workers released in March by Willis Towers
Watson, a mangement consulting firm, 58
percent said they want to work remotely.

Of these, some 36 percent said they want
to work remotely most of the time or in
a hybrid arrangement that splits the time
between office and WFH.

Better work/life balance
About 70% of those who answered the
WTW survey said working remotely al-
lowed them to achieve a better work/life
balance. Alternatively, more than half said
WFH left them feeling “disconnected” from
their teams.

To call COVID-19 a game-changer for the
semiconductor industry is a gross under-
statement. While the lethality of the virus
turned the U.S. economy on its head, it
also propelled semiconductor makers in
unheard of directions.

While chips have become the equivalent of
global oil, powering appliances, computers
and smartphones, the introduction of CO-
VID unleashed a shortage of many types
of semiconductors and a weakness in the
global supply chain.

Before early 2021,
computers were con-
sidered essential for
most business uses.
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