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Bosses Talk 'Serendipity'

But workers want minimum viable office.

Stowe Boyd
Jul 24, 2021
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Couldn’t this have been a Zoom call? — Photo by Helena Lopes on Unsplash

The Immortal ‘Serendipity’ Myth

I have been collecting mentions of all that glorious serendipity we are losing out on by working from home. However, as I reported in Getting Down To Business, this is a myth, a collective illusion, where I cited Claire Cain Miller:

People who study the…

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