Your Tuesday at a glance:
- Weather: Sunny, high of 51.
- What to eat: The owner of the Bitter Alibi and Daily Ration is expanding his restaurant offerings into Red Bank and Signal Mountain.
- What’s helping: Donors and readers like you contributed around $70,000 in 2021 to our annual Neediest Cases Fund donation drive.
- What’s cool: While I was quite bummed that the snow didn’t make its way down to me in the valley, many of our neighbors got to enjoy the white stuff Monday. Check out this gallery of people making most of the chilly day.
Good morning, Chattanooga!
Remote or in-person?
It may be a fairly new question for office-based businesses in the past two years, and everyone seems to have a different opinion.
Currently, I’m a fan of having an autonomous hybrid, coming and going as desired. But some days I wish I could just turn around and ask someone a question or laugh at a collective joke. Others I’m glad for my alone time at home and being able to travel and still work.
Obviously, COVID is still making some of these decisions for local offices, but as we look to the future, more people are asking, “Does remote work work?”
“It comes down to what you’re trying to be as a business, what your culture is, what your goals are,” said Jason Provonsha, the CEO of Steam Logistics.
Here’s where a few Chattanooga businesses land on different sides of the remote vs. in-person fence.
Now for some recent stories:
ICYMI: Chattanooga’s first baby of 2022 was welcomed into the world at 1:32 a.m. on New Year’s Day.
STARTING OFF RIGHT: These are six good habits to start for your marriage in the new year.
OPEN AND SHUT: Here’s a list of Chattanooga restaurants that opened and closed in 2021.
– Tierra Hayes, thayes@timesfreepress.com
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