Tech workers flooded Hawaii in the pandemic. With remote work on the decline, what now?

Earlier this year, Tesla CEO Elon Musk told workers to return to in-person work 40 hours a week or risk being fired. Other corporate giants like Goldman Sachs have pushed similar policies during the current phase of the pandemic, making full-time remote work increasingly rare. — Image by pvproductions on Freepik

Stuck in her Seattle apartment last year with pandemic strictures still mostly in effect, Jaime Schilling saw a way out.

A fundraising specialist with the non-profit Heifer International responsible for donors in Northern California and Hawaii, she no longer needed to be in a particular location with most of the in-person work gone by the wayside.