A study by microsop found that while communications within the office didn't change, silos deepened. Soft work is what you can only really do in an office and it's not just slacking off its relationship with colleagues. Some offices aren't essential for hard work but they are probably better at this other category we think of as soft work.
They said the office would never be the same. In part two of our series, The Future of Work, what happens to your workplace when they're right.
Today’s show was produced by Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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