A Better Future for the Office

Plus, the legal profession reckons with Jan. 6 and how to approach AI regulation.

View in browser September 1, 2023   Editor's note: Thank you for reading the Brookings Brief! We will be on a short hiatus for the Labor Day holiday in the United States. Please look out for the next edition of the newsletter on Tuesday, September 5. This Labor Day, employers and workers should work together to build a better future for the office   March 2020 marked a new era for many workers. In-person meetings became Zooms, long commutes disappeared, and workers gained flexibility and freedom in how they did their jobs. Since then, passionate debates have taken place about the merits of offices versus remote work. Even Zoom announced a policy mandating that some of its employees return to in-person work.   Tracy Hadden Loh and DW Rowlands argue that the debate over remote work is really a debate about working conditions. They look at various measures of remote work productivity, highlight the issues with traditional offices and their locations, and emphasize that employers must give workers a meaningful reason to return. Read more More research and commentary   The legal profession reckons with Jan. 6. Quinta Jurecic writes that for a profession that aspires to a certain civic importance and that prides itself on being self-regulating, the indictments around the 2020 election have caused somewhat of a moral crisis.   A path for AI governance. Alex Engler proposes a novel legislative approach to tackle artificial intelligence (AI) regulation in the United States. Did you like this new version of the Brookings Brief?  Yes No Have more to say? Complete this short survey to share your thoughts about the newsletter. The Brookings Institution,1775 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington, DC 20036 Unsubscribe | Manage newsletter subscriptions  The conclusions and recommendations of any Brookings publication are solely those of its author(s), and do not reflect the views of the Institution, its management, or its other scholars.