Especially if you work remotely and rarely see your colleagues or clients face to face, but if your job involves interacting with other people, the answer to this is often yes.

尤其如是远程办公，很少和同事或客户见面，但如的工作需要经常和其他人打交道，那这个问题的答案通常就是肯定的。

Every employee became a remote worker and every student became a digital learner.

每一个员工都得远程办公，每个学生也都通过数字化的形式完成学习。

We have in the single digits people want -- who want to spend four or five days in the office and much more in terms of almost a third of our workforce want to be actually full time remote.

结，只有很小一部分员工想办公室呆上四、五天工作，而将近三分之一的员工希望能够做到全职远程办公。

Parents bought tablets so their kids could learn from home, newly remote workers bought laptops.

家长要购买平板电脑，以供孩子家上学，从事远程办公的人员要购买笔记本电脑。

Telecommuting has increased 115 percent over the past decade.

过去十年内，远程办公的情况增长了 115%。

Maybe you can have your own company or maybe you can just hustle on the street and buy it from one place and telecommute and sell it by yourself on the Internet without having an official company.

也许以拥有自己的公司，或以街上兜售东西，从一个地方购买东西，然后远程办公，自己互联网上销售，而无需官方公司。

So does this mean companies will abandon remote working altogether, even its hybrid version?

那么，这是否意味着公司将完全放弃远程工作模式，甚至放弃远程办公的混合版本？

Some companies now allow their employees to telecommute.

一些公司现允许员工远程办公。

And Bolsonaro says he's planning to carry on working, although remotely for now.

博索纳罗表，他计划继续工作，不过目前只能远程办公。

HSBC is searching for smaller premises because of the shift to remote working.

由于转向远程办公，汇丰银行正寻找面积较小的办公场所。

Major companies are asking remote workers to come on back.

大公司正要求远程员工回到办公室工作。

WFH refers to working from home or working remotely.

WFH 指的是家办公或远程工作。

The planet is having a crash course in e-commerce, digital payments and remote working.

电子商务、数字支付、远程办公迅速发展。

The biggest difference for me was all the time freed up by telecommuting.

对我来说，最大的不同是远程办公空出来了通勤时间。

Being the last to leave the office impresses bosses, even if you are actually larking around on Facebook. Oddly, this holds true at firms that explicitly encourage staff to work from home.

上司欣赏最后一个离开办公室的员工，即使他只是浏览社交网站。奇怪的是，这明确鼓励员工远程办公的公司也同样适用。

And while this may initially seem like bliss (you get to avoid your daily commute or snooze your alarm for an extra hour), remote work can also come with its drawbacks.

虽然远程居家办公似乎一开始看起来很幸福（打工人以避免日常通勤或关掉闹钟再小睡一小时），但它也有自己的缺点。

The fact that such practices remain officially unaccepted reflects how far we haven't come as a society from the days when we expected every full-time worker to be supported by a full-time homemaker.

远程办公还未被正式地接受，这一事实反映出，从过去我们期望每个全职员工都能得到一个全职家庭主妇支持的时代起，我们的社会还没怎么进步。

There are also employees who have no choice but to work remotely because their companies have decided to do away with offices altogether to have a more agile workforce — it's certainly very cost-effective and attractive for start-ups.

还有一些员工别无选择，只能远程办公，因为他们的公司决定完全取消办公室，以拥有一支更灵活的员工队伍——这对初创企业来说当然非常划算，也很有吸引力。

But two big wrinkles are often neglected: first, more than two-thirds of the improved performance came from employees working longer hours, not more efficiently; second, the Chinese firm eventually halted remote work because off-site employees struggled to get promoted.

但有两大问题经常被忽视：首先，超过三分之二的表现提高是因为工作时间更长，而非效率更高；其次，这家中国企业最终停止了远程办公，因为远程员工很难获得晋升。

The firm insisted that demand for packaged food should remain strong all year as many people continue to work from home at least some of the time.

该公司坚持认为，包装食品的需求应该会全年保持强劲，因为许多人继续远程办公，至少某些时候是这样的。