The case for letting people work from home forever

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View this email in your browser  |  Manage newsletter subscriptions  05.12.21   CONSOLATION PRIZE | 8-MINUTE READ The PS5 Is Starting to Look Like the Revolution It Promised BY PETER RUBIN What's happening with Sony's latest console, now that it's been out for six months? Supply issues aside, it's proving to be much more than a simple evolution.   RIDING SHOTGUN | 4-MINUTE READ Biden Makes a Deal With Uber and Lyft in the Name of Vaccines BY AARIAN MARSHALL Despite his unease with the ride-hail business model, the president needs help getting more Americans to vaccination sites to meet his July 4 deadline.   GLOBE TROTTERS | 4-MINUTE READ Adidas and Allbirds Team Up to Make Sustainable Running Shoes BY ADRIENNE SO The high-performance Futurecraft.Footprint shows the key to a lower carbon impact might lie in collaboration, not competition.   FLEX TIME | 5-MINUTE READ The Case for Letting People Work From Home Forever BY JACLYN GREENBERG Do you want happier, productive, more engaged, and more fulfilled employees and coworkers? Well, you should campaign to let them work remotely. Here's why.   PARTNER CONTENT The Most Important Business Story of Our Time The revealing and urgent narrative of how Amazon became one of the largest entities on the planet and a probing, detailed profile of its founder and the wealthiest person alive, Jeff Bezos. GET WIRED Stare the future right in the eye. Get 1 year of unlimited access to WIRED for less than $2 per month. Plus, get a free tote. Subscribe now.   OOO | 3-MINUTE READ Help! A Male Colleague Thinks I'm Scary BY MEGAN GREENWELL Whose problem is it when men are intimidated by women at work?   CREATURE DISCOMFORTS | 3-MINUTE READ Watch a Snake Robot Go for a Swim BY MATT SIMON The Hardened Underwater Modular Robot Snake has thrusters for muscles and a camera for a face. Your move, evolution.   IDEAS | 8-MINUTE READ Humans Need to Create Interspecies Money to Save the Planet BY J.M. LEDGARD A new form of digital currency for animals, trees, and other wildlife (no, not like Dogecoin) would help protect biodiversity and bend technology back to nature.   GOALS | 4-MINUTE READ DeepMind Wants to Use AI to Transform Soccer BY AMIT KATWALA, WIRED UK The Alphabet-owned company is working with Liverpool to bring computer vision and statistical learning to the high-stakes world of sports.     This e-mail was sent to you by WIRED. To ensure delivery to your inbox (not bulk or junk folders), please add our e-mail address, wired@newsletters.wired.com, to your address book.   View our Privacy Policy Unsubscribe or Manage your newsletter subscriptions   Copyright © Condé Nast 2021. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.