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The office is dead! Long live the office in a post-pandemic world

  • Written by Beth Humberd, Associate Professor of Management, University of Massachusetts Lowell
imageLong live the office. AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster

Editor’s note: The future of the office has become an open question after the coronavirus lockdown forced tens of millions of Americans to work from home. Will office workers flock back to their cubicles and water coolers when the pandemic ends? Or will employees want to hold on to their newfound...

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