| ▲ | jjulius 7 hours ago | |||||||
Asking because I'm genuinely curious myself, how much of this is unemployment vs the fact that so many more people work from home now compared to pre-2008? Many of those that WFH work a more flexible schedule and probably structure their days a lot differently than 20+ years ago. | ||||||||
| ▲ | zerr 7 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||
Yes, remote and part-time. Shopping on Monday afternoons is enjoyable. | ||||||||
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| ▲ | stevenwoo 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||
I used to encounter maybe one person who did not have a head of gray hair, i.e. obviously retired, in a variety of mid peninsula parks in Silicon Valley on weekdays pre covid during the work day and nowadays I run into a dozen or more in a typical half day outing on a week day and this trend definitely started during pandemic. But I don’t know if it’s unemployment or WFH now. | ||||||||