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Economists call the phenomenon agglomeration, which feels like an onomatopoeia: It’s the sound businesses make as they cluster together to take advantage of a skilled workforce and shared base of suppliers and buyers.
In the typical metro area for which we have data, people are now about 36 percent more likely to work for managers in another metro area than they were before the pandemic, “The trade-off between those two locations has just shifted, probably in favor of the leadership hub,” said Romem, who has long studied how cities work as the founder of the research outfit MetroSight. “There are fewer centrifugal forces, fewer forces preventing agglomeration of managers.”
Looked at from another, perhaps more cynical, perspective, agglomeration begins to resemble a hollowing out. As a physical gulf opens between managers and subordinates, we’re stepping on a slow conveyor belt toward high-cost managerial cities and low-cost working-class ones. But it also depends on something funnier: We’ll call it calendar nepotism, after the human tendency to favor those to whom you are linked by birth. When slicing and dicing the results of YouGov’s poll of 1,000 U.S. adults, we noticed that — no matter the season — we’re more likely to say it’s our favorite if it includes our own birthday.
Each American flushes an average of five times a day. So depending on how often you’re flushing invasive brown marmorated stink bugs — that’s a species name, not a euphemism — you may be seriously expanding your flushing footprint.
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