This transition is already underway, accelerated by the social changes necessitated by COVID-19. At the peak during the pandemic, up to 42 percent of Americans were working from home.[217] This experience will likely have a long-term impact on how both employees and employers think about work. In many cases the old model of nine-to-five sitting at a desk in a company office has been obsolete for years, but inertia and familiarity made it hard for society to change until the pandemic forced us to. As the LOAR takes information technologies into the steep parts of these exponential curves and AI
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