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Needing office esprit de corps


 From Robert Whitcomb’s “Digital Diary,’’ in GoLocal24.com

The office you leave your home to go to work in will not die, and indeed will stage a comeback when the COVID crisis fades. Many kinds of work are much more productive when people can collaborate in the same physical space. Sharing space encourages idea-sharing and esprit de corps. The experience of the past few months has vividly shown the strengths and weaknesses of Zooming and Skyping job work.