Working from Anywhere

Kulkea työmatkaa, pendelöidä

To commute (to the office)

Jättää taakse

To leave something behind

Langettaa loitsu, saada aikaan lumous

To cast a spell (again)

1. What is the writer's main point in the text? — That remote work shifted economic life from one kind of place to another and settled into an uneasy compromise
2. According to the text, why did the businesses in city centres struggle? — Because they had depended on the daily crowd of commuters, which thinned out
3. What does the writer suggest about the money that left the city centres? — It moved with the workers to wherever they now spent their days