{"id":79399,"date":"2022-03-11T16:07:28","date_gmt":"2022-03-11T21:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=79399"},"modified":"2022-03-11T16:07:28","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T21:07:28","slug":"the-five-day-workweek-is-dying-thompson-items-re-the-environment-and-a-new-dna-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2022\/03\/11\/the-five-day-workweek-is-dying-thompson-items-re-the-environment-and-a-new-dna-test\/","title":{"rendered":"The Five-Day Workweek Is Dying [Thompson] + items re: the environment and a new DNA test"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr \/>\n<p><em>My thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/jackuldrich.com\/blog\/future\/jack-uldrichs-friday-future-5-march-11-2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mr. Jack Uldrich<\/a> for the following three items:<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2022\/02\/work-from-home-revolution\/622880\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The Five-Day Workweek Is Dying<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from theatlantic.com by Derek Thompson<br \/>\n<em>And the implications for work and cities are going to be fascinating.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">According to data from Kastle Systems, which tracks building access across the country, office attendance is at just 33 percent of its pre-pandemic average. That\u2019s lower than in-person attendance in just about any other industry for which we have good data. Even movie theaters\u2014a business sometimes\u00a0written off\u00a0as \u201cdoomed\u201d\u2014have recovered almost twice as much.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">What once seemed like a hot take is becoming a stone-cold reality: For tens of millions of knowledge-economy workers, the office is never coming all the way back. The implications\u2014for work, cities, and the geography of labor\u2014will be fascinating.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/menafn.com\/1103800288\/Panama-ENVIRONMENT-175-countries-sign-plastic-waste-treaty\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Panama &#8211; ENVIRONMENT: 175 countries sign plastic waste treaty<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from menafn.com<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">At a meeting of the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA) in Nairobi, Kenya, 175 countries on March 2 passed a resolution on the first treaty to directly tackle the 9 billion tonnes of plastic produced since the plastic age ramped up in the 1950s. Work now begins on how to implement the treaty by 2024.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/single-dna-test-for-over-50-genetic-diseases-will-cut-diagnosis-from-decades-to-days\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Single DNA Test for Over 50 Genetic Diseases Will Cut Diagnosis From Decades to Days<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">A new\u00a0DNA\u00a0test, developed by researchers at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Sydney and collaborators from Australia, UK and Israel, has been shown to identify a range of hard-to-diagnose neurological and neuromuscular genetic diseases quicker and more-accurately than existing tests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My thanks to Mr. Jack Uldrich for the following three items: The Five-Day Workweek Is Dying &#8212; from theatlantic.com by Derek Thompson And the implications for work and cities are going to be fascinating. 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