Editor’s Note: RISMedia’s Year-End Outlook series provides an in-depth analysis of the housing market’s leading indicators for economic health, and showcases expert insights on what’s to come in 2022.
Dolly Parton might still be plugging away at a nine to five, and BTO might still catch the 8:15 train into the city, but for most of the country, the traditional machinations of labor have changed. Besides the well-documented shifts to remote in many industries, rising wages and a rapidly evolving outlook on what work fundamentally should look like appears to be altering the entire labor economy as people quit their jobs in droves and companies scramble to accommodate new priorities and philosophies.