One thing was clear about 2020: Everyone loves an #OfficeEnvy.
Nearly half of the 20 most-visited stories published by BostInno this year were of enviable offices, which is impressive given that those tapered off significantly after March. Still, the numbers are themselves proof of adaptation. The No. 1 story this year was a look inside reader-submitted home offices shortly after the remote-work surge; the No. 10 spot is held by a roundup of pets helping their people work from home.
The second-largest trend we saw in our look at annual website traffic was decidedly sadder: Companies across the Boston area laid off workers as the coronavirus pandemic roiled entire economic sectors, with travel and hospitality among the hardest hit. It wasn’t all bad, though — near the beginning of the year, tech companies combined their efforts to put on a pop-up job fair (remember that?), and firms with greater cash runways scooped up some of the people who had been let go elsewhere.
Below, we ranked our stories by number of visits. Check out the top 20, with links, below.
- #OfficeEnvy: WFH Edition: Here's How a Dozen Boston-Area Workers Are Set Up by Rowan Walrath, March 23, 2020
- #OfficeEnvy: Inside Flywire's Newly Expanded Downtown HQ by Rowan Walrath, Jan. 21, 2020
- BostInno's 25 Under 25: These are 2020's brightest young minds by Rowan Walrath, Sept. 24, 2020
- #OfficeEnvy: Inside Buoy Health's New South End Space by Jill McKeon, Feb. 10, 2020
- DataRobot Cuts Workforce as Coronavirus Roils the Startup Economy by Rowan Walrath, March 27, 2020
- #OfficeEnvy: Mendix Grows Along With the Seaport by Rowan Walrath, Feb. 18, 2020
- BostInno’s 2020 Inno on Fire by BostInno Staff, Oct. 22, 2020
- #OfficeEnvy: Inside Bynder's American HQ in the Seaport by Rowan Walrath, Feb. 3, 2020
- Coronavirus cuts: These Boston startups are downsizing by Rowan Walrath and Srividya Kalyanaraman, April 3, 2020 (last updated Dec. 1, 2020)
- #OfficeEnvy: These pets have become de facto coworkers by Rowan Walrath, May 11, 2020
- #OfficeEnvy: Inside Flipside Crypto's Whimsical Leather District Space by Rowan Walrath, Jan. 27, 2020
- #OfficeEnvy: Inside Tripleseat's Laid-Back Concord HQ by Jill McKeon, March 2, 2020
- #OfficeEnvy: Inside Sprout Studios' Part-Office, Part-Workshop HQ by Rowan Walrath, March 9, 2020
- In Wake of Wayfair Layoffs, Tech Companies Put on Pop-up Job Fair by Rowan Walrath, Feb. 18, 2020
- The 21 Startups to Watch in Boston in 2021 by Rowan Walrath, Dec. 15, 2020
- Biobot Analytics finds COVID-19 cases 'an order of magnitude higher' than tests reveal by Srividya Kalyanaraman, April 9, 2020
- #OfficeEnvy: Medisafe's Cozy, Light-Filled Office on Boylston Street by Rowan Walrath, Jan. 13, 2020
- Travel booking app Hopper announces layoffs amid coronavirus crisis by Srividya Kalyanaraman, April 6, 2020
- From food to fintech: Stavvy's team is now majority ex-Toast employees by Rowan Walrath, Aug. 21, 2020
- Salsify lays off 60, cuts executive pay amid coronavirus-driven uncertainty by Rowan Walrath, April 3, 2020
