The Five-Day Workweek Is Dying

Starting around 2006, young Americans seemed to be turning against the suburban lifestyle and flocking instead to city centers. Meanwhile, immigrants and the urban poor were moving out to the suburbs—a phenomenon called the Great Inversion by the urbanist Alan Ehrenhalt. But then population growth rates in America’s suburbs started outpacing those

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Some will return to physically co-working with strangers, and some employers trapped in the past will force people to go to offices, but the illusion that the office was about work will be shattered forever, and companies that hold on to that legacy will be replaced by companies who embrace the antifragile nature of distributed organizations.