Relationships with adults in school and other classmates are crucial for attendance. In the work pressure, U.S. staff are nonetheless working from home at a rate that has remained largely unchanged since late 2022. Companies have managed to “put the genie back in the bottle” to some extent by requiring a return to office a number of days a week, said Nicholas Bloom, an economist at Stanford University who research distant work. Dr. Shepherd, who originally hoped student absenteeism would improve naturally with time, has begun to assume that it’s, in reality, on the root of many issues. Across the…
