Elon Musk has arguably been white-collar workers’ loudest critic, accusing remote workers of “pretending to work” and the American workforce of “trying to avoid going to work at all" in the aftermath of the pandemic. But as it turns out, he might be right.
New research from the world’s most senior central bankers has found that people really are less willing to work. The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) said “workers’ preferences have shifted in favor of fewer working hours” since the pandemic.
