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Mar 2021
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Workplace Design, Post-Pandemic (Back to...

Harvard Business Review
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Anne-Laure Fayard, associate professor at NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering, was studying the effects of workplace design on employees long before the Covid-19 crisis. Now, she says, the trend of flexible schedules and hybrid offices - where some people come in, others work from home, and many do both - is here to stay. This means that businesses need to r ... Show More
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