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The Enduring Presence of Remote Work: A CEO’s Unlikely Wish

Working from home isn’t going away, even if some CEOs wish it would Most workers crave flexibility and work-life balanceWhen I started working from home in the late 1980s as a freelance technical writer, I was clearly an outlier. Today, 14% of U.S. workers work at home full time (including me), and that number is expected to increase to 20% by next year, according to data published by USA Today. Wayfair, the Boston-based online furniture company, concentrated on remote workers over in-office folks in a layoff earlier this year, according to a WSJ report. Meanwhile Michael Bloomberg suggested remote workers weren’t actually working, but playing golf (which honestly sounds like projecting to me). That’s a lot of executive energy being directed against working from home and toward working in the office.

Zara Khan
April 7, 2024
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Codified Aims to Introduce Flexibility to Governance as Data Takes Center Stage

That’s where Codified, an early stage startup that was nurtured last year inside venture capital firm Madrona Ventures, comes into the picture. The company was built from the ground up from a data veteran with an eye toward solving the data compliance problem, and today it announced a $4 million seed round. Company founder and CEO Yatharth Gupta sees that data is at the center of today’s technology, yet companies struggle to control access to it. Both jobs, he says, were heavily involved in data and he saw the kinds of problems he’s trying to solve with Codified. Investors in today’s round include Vine Ventures, Soma Capital and Madrona Venture Labs where Codified incubated last year.