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WHY THE OFFICE ISN’T GOING AWAY

Remote work is getting a lot of love during the pandemic. But there are reasons to believe it won’t stay that way.


By Peter Cappelli

Updated Dec. 13, 2020 9:00 am ET


The giant work-from-home experiment that no one wanted has been under way long enough to ask: What happens to the office now? Do we really need it?


History reminds us that the early days of the Industrial Revolution began with people doing commercial work from home. Since then, we have been remarkably, some might say stubbornly, committed to the idea that work should be centered at the office, even when it could have been done remotely. We invested huge amounts of money in office real estate equipped to help us be efficient. We also asked employees to spend lots of time and money traveling to those offices…


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