Here are five stats from this past week that made our team go “whoa.” Hopefully you will, too.

💼 The share of people who work mostly in-person doubled in 2024 compared to the previous year, from 34% to 68% of all workers.

🤖🌏 Trust in AI is more than 2x higher in India (77% of residents) and China (72%) compared to the US (32%).

💐 70+% of all fresh-cut flowers sold in the US are imported through Miami International Airport.

🏠🇺🇸 The median age of a renter in the US stood at 42 years old in 2024, up from 33 in 2021.

🎮 Sony sold 20.2 million PlayStation 5’s last year – more than the combined sales of both the Nintendo Switch (11.5 million units) and Microsoft’s Xbox consoles (~5 million units).