The case for letting people work from home forever

PLUS: The PS5 Is Starting to Look Like the Revolution It Promised, and more [View this email in your browser]( | [Manage newsletter subscriptions](newsletter=wir) [[(image) WIRED Daily Newsletter Logo]05.12.21]( [sony playstation 5]( [CONSOLATION PRIZE | 8-MINUTE READ]( [The PS5 Is Starting to Look Like the Revolution It Promised]( BY PETER RUBIN [What’s happening with Sony’s latest console, now that it’s been out for six months? Supply issues aside, it’s proving to be much more than a simple evolution.]( [woman sitting in lyft]( [RIDING SHOTGUN | 4-MINUTE READ]( [Biden Makes a Deal With Uber and Lyft in the Name of Vaccines]( BY AARIAN MARSHALL [Despite his unease with the ride-hail business model, the president needs help getting more Americans to vaccination sites to meet his July 4 deadline.]( [shoes]( [GLOBE TROTTERS | 4-MINUTE READ]( [Adidas and Allbirds Team Up to Make Sustainable Running Shoes]( BY ADRIENNE SO [The high-performance Futurecraft.Footprint shows the key to a lower carbon impact might lie in collaboration, not competition.]( [person on laptop]( [FLEX TIME | 5-MINUTE READ]( [The Case for Letting People Work From Home Forever]( BY JACLYN GREENBERG [Do you want happier, productive, more engaged, and more fulfilled employees and coworkers? Well, you should campaign to let them work remotely. Here's why.]( [PARTNER CONTENT]( [The Most Important Business Story of Our Time]( [The revealing and urgent narrative of how Amazon became one of the largest entities on the planet and a probing, detailed profile of its founder and the wealthiest person alive, Jeff Bezos.]( [[GET WIRED]( [Stare the future right in the eye.]( [Get 1 year of unlimited access to WIRED for less than $2 per month. Plus, get a free tote.]( [Subscribe now.](]( [An illustration of characters in a meeting afraid of a boss.]( [OOO | 3-MINUTE READ]( [Help! A Male Colleague Thinks I’m Scary]( BY MEGAN GREENWELL [Whose problem is it when men are intimidated by women at work?]( [robotic snake]( [CREATURE DISCOMFORTS | 3-MINUTE READ]( [Watch a Snake Robot Go for a Swim]( BY MATT SIMON [The Hardened Underwater Modular Robot Snake has thrusters for muscles and a camera for a face. Your move, evolution.]( [Collage of images of money, deforestation, conservation efforts, and baby langur monkeys]( [IDEAS | 8-MINUTE READ]( [Humans Need to Create Interspecies Money to Save the Planet]( BY J.M. LEDGARD [A new form of digital currency for animals, trees, and other wildlife (no, not like Dogecoin) would help protect biodiversity and bend technology back to nature.]( [liverpool soccer]( [GOALS | 4-MINUTE READ]( [DeepMind Wants to Use AI to Transform Soccer]( BY AMIT KATWALA, WIRED UK [The Alphabet-owned company is working with Liverpool to bring computer vision and statistical learning to the high-stakes world of sports.]( [(image) Condé Nast Spotlight | The breaking news and top stories everyone is talking about. All in one place. The most popular stories from Vogue, GQ, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Wired, Architectural Digest and more. STAY INFORMED]( [(image) WIRED Logo]( [(image) WIRED on Facebook]( [(image) WIRED on Twitter]( [(image) WIRED on Instagram]( [(image) WIRED on LinkedIn]( [(image) WIRED on YouTube]( [Podcasts]( This e-mail was sent to you by WIRED. To ensure delivery to your inbox (not bulk or junk folders), please add our e-mail address, wired@newsletters.wired.com, to your address book. View our [Privacy Policy]( [Unsubscribe]( or [Manage your newsletter subscriptions](newsletter=wir) Copyright © Condé Nast 2021. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.