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Feb 2022
42m 36s

Reaction Offices and the Future of Work

ROMAN MARS
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People have been going back and forth about what makes a healthy and productive office since there have been offices. The 20th century was full of misbegotten fads and productivity innovations that continue to this day, even when the whole notion of what it means to be in an office has shifted during the pandemic. 
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