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Are You Workin' It in 2021?

Contribute to Our Special Issue on the Post-Pandemic Job World

Whether you’re an essential worker, working from home, or making ends meet somewhere in between, the reality of work in 2021 is like something we’ve never experienced.

So we’d like to know what work life is like for you in a world that’s fast-emerging (we hope!) from the planet’s latest pandemic.

Below are two ways to give us feedback on how your jobs have changed and what you expect to come in 2021. One is a poll, and the other is a series of questions requiring written answers. We hope you do both.

Please be aware that we know many people lost their jobs and continue to struggle with finding employment today, which are critical topics that our news department covers constantly. This questionnaire is not aimed to showcase those issues. Instead, it seeks to identify challenges, solutions, and other interesting perhaps even inspiring ways that our readers are adjusting to work life in the post-pandemic world.


For the Poll below, please answer at least 9 of the following 16 questions for your poll to qualify.

Underneath the poll you will find some direct questions about your work life. Please answer at least 4 of 11 questions for your questionnaire to qualify, and please limit responses to 200 words or less. 

1.Did you start working from home during the pandemic?
2.How long have you been working from home?
3.How many other people in your household are working from home?
4.How has your productivity changed by working from home?
5.What impact has working from home had on your mental health?
6.What impact has working from home had on your physical health?
7.What amount of professional costs (internet, office supplies, snacks, etc.) have you absorbed by working from home?
8.Have employers helped to cover the extra professional costs caused by working from home?
9.Do you prefer:
10.Are you excited to go back to the office?
11.Who wants you out of the house more?
12.What would make you feel safer when returning to the office?
1 - Would not make me feel any safer
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8 - Would make me feel the most safe
Less people and/or more space to spread out.
Less required time in office.
More protected personal space.
Better ventilation system.
Masks and social distancing required.
Regular disinfection protocols.
Plastic shields in strategic locations.
More outdoor seating/meeting options.
13.Has your employer been flexible re: working from home / returning to the office?
14.Does your employer expect you to return to the office this year?
15.Which would you choose if the pandemic was completely over?
16.Did you wish for a different career during the pandemic?
17.How has your work situation changed since the pandemic?
18.What's the best part about working from home?
19.What's the worst part about working from home?
20.Describe your work-from-home area: where do you sit, what's your "view," etc. How has your set-up changed over the course of the pandemic?
21.If others are working or schooling at home, how have you divided your work space?
22.How has incorporating your work space in your home affected your living space?
23.What's been your best method(s) of dealing with the distraction of pets and kids while working from home?
24.What became your emergency quiet space in the house?
25.How has your employer made working from home easier on you? Harder?
26.What aspects of returning to the office are you looking forward to most? Dreading most?
27.What steps has your employer taken to make a return to the office safe and comfortable? What additional steps do you wish they would take?
28.Fill out your contact information.
Note that we won't share your contact information with anyone outside our organization.(Required.)