Remote work is the practice of working from one's home or another space rather than from an office.
Most respondents to the same climate survey in 2021-2022 believe that most of us will be working from home in 20 years to help save the planet.
The United States Marine Corps began allowing remote work in 2010.
In sociology, the third place refers to the social surroundings that are separate from the two usual social environments of home and the workplace. Examples of third places include churches, cafes, bars, clubs, community centres, public libraries, gyms, bookstores, makerspaces, stoops, parks, theaters, and opera houses, among others. In his book The Great Good Place (1989), Ray Oldenburg argues that third places are important for civil society, democracy, civic engagement and establishing feelings of a sense of place. Before Oldenburg's death, at 90, in 2022, he asked Karen Christensen, with whom he had corresponded and collaborated for many years, to write a new version of The Great Good Place, as well as keeping the original edition available.
This barber shop in Brazil is an example of a third place. In many societies barber shops and beauty salons are traditional areas to congregate separate from work or home.
The Ancient Agora of Athens
A recreation of the Central Perk cafe in Burbank, CA.
People sitting at tables at the Jongensbinnenplaats (lit. 'Boys' Courtyard') in the Amsterdam Museum in Amsterdam, the Netherlands
