INTRODUCTION
The Great Opportunity
Why do we work in offices at all?
Office shock is abrupt, unsettling change in where, how, when, and even why we work. Office shock and echoing aftershocks will continue indefinitely in unpredictable patterns.
COVID-19 was one of many jaggedly ugly shocks such as chronic climate emergencies, systemic racism, and gender inequality. The mules of war are still with us, but future wars will be weirdly different. Cyber warfare and cyber terrorism will be possible in forms never imagined. Ugly still, but in different ways.
We are facing a rolling risk of further pandemics and further shocks. Office workers, corporations, and policy makers will be shocked, again and again, into making hard choices about where, when, ...
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