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"No one wants a sea of desks anymore" says WeWork's global head of design
- Once the immediate adjustments are made, there will be winners and losers. Absent extensive bankruptcies (and missed rent payments), traditional commercial landlords may take the lightest hit as companies still need office space, but the WeWorks of the world are in for tough times as struggling startups and small businesses look for cheaper (or fre... See more
from Leading VCs discuss how COVID-19 is impacting real estate & proptech by Techcrunch
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Both intuition and a growing body of research underscore the reality that sharing a workspace with a large number of coworkers is incredibly distracting—creating an environment that thwarts attempts to think seriously. In a 2013 article summarizing recent research on this topic, Bloomberg Businessweek went so far as to call for an end to the “tyran
... See morefrom Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport
- The Nowhere Office addresses the problems which beset work - the endemic stagnant productivity and crisis of stress which predate the pandemic - and the new challenges of remote working, repurposing offices for more creative interaction, managing WFH teams and satisfying the demand for more purposeful work with greater work/life balance.
from The Nowhere Office by Julia Hobsbawm
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