It is not just that workers have taken to videoconferencing and consumers to e-commerce—significant as those advances are, for example to easing the constraints on jobseeking posed by housing shortages.

这说的不仅仅是员工习惯了视频会议、消费者拥抱电子商务——尽管这些进展确实意义重大，比如缓解了住房短缺对求职的限制。