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Offices Are Better for Mingling Than for Focusing
As remote work frees up desks, companies are learning to remake their spaces to emphasize interaction.
Caffeinated camaraderie.
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The rise of remote work might be the best thing to ever happen to the office.
Until the Covid-19 pandemic upended our work lives, the office functioned as a do-it-all, be-everything-to-all-people space, balancing desks for individual work with conference rooms for team meetings and social areas for chit-chat. As a result, it did none of these jobs very well.