Most US employees on average want to work from home at least two days per week after the pandemic ends, research finds.
![The current patchwork of the 'great return' to the office models has many questioning whether there’s an optimal hybrid approach - for workers and the bottom line [File: Hollie Adams/Bloomberg]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/365885686.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Laurin-Whitney Gottbrath is an online editor at Global News Insight English.
Most US employees on average want to work from home at least two days per week after the pandemic ends, research finds.
![The current patchwork of the 'great return' to the office models has many questioning whether there’s an optimal hybrid approach - for workers and the bottom line [File: Hollie Adams/Bloomberg]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/365885686.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Report finds the Caribbean suffers billions in lost tourism and productivity each year due to anti-LGBTQ laws.

Economists estimate countries are losing billions of dollars a year due to homophobia and anti-LGBTQ laws and practices.
![By limiting a person’s access to jobs, education and healthcare - and by erecting other barriers - anti-LGBTQ laws prevent people from fully participating in a nation’s economy, which is a drag on economic growth, to the detriment of the entire nation [File: Craig Ruttle/AP]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/AP19181659331501.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Though the US economy is recovering, the pandemic may have cost women years of progress in the workplace.
![Dawn Morgan Neary, mother of two, quit her job in November due to the demands of looking after her young children [File: courtesy Dawn Morgan Neary]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Dawn-1.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
New York City Health + Hospitals’s Syra Madad on the women who inspired her at home and in her work in public health.
![[Illustration by Jawahir Al-Naimi and Muaz Kory/Global News Insight]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Womens-Series-triplets.png?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Civic change agent Sarah Williams tells the story of the grandmother who inspires her to fight for racial justice.
![[Illustration by Jawahir Al-Naimi and Muaz Kory/Global News Insight]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Womens-Series-1.png?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
A cadre of Black women in Louisville is honouring Taylor’s legacy by giving back to their communities.
!['Before they said activist revolutionaries don’t make good politicians. We’re turning that [notion] on its head,' said 44-year-old Shameka Parrish-Wright, who plans to run for Louisville mayor in 2022 [Chris Kenning/Global News Insight]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/0F9A9376-2.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
It will take more than stimulus aid and moratoriums to solve a housing crisis that hits Americans of colour hardest.
![United States housing activists say the federal eviction moratorium and state and local protections are important but don't go far enough in safeguarding tenants [File: Lucy Nicholson/Reuters]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/2020-10-01T175552Z_1159402849_RC2T9J9PZ1VK_RTRMADP_3_HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS-USA-EVICTIONS.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Dozens of businesses took action against US President Donald Trump and some Republican lawmakers after the Capitol riot.
![Trump has long boasted about his business acumen and corporate connections, but company after company cut ties with him following the violent siege at the US Capitol by his supporters [File: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/2021-01-12T151430Z_186536507_RC2F6L9LRCDX_RTRMADP_3_USA-TRUMP.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Local BLM organisers reflect on a year that rocked the United States and chart their priorities for 2021.
