TEAMS, TODDLERS AND CABINETS: THE JOYS OF WORKING FROM HOME
Mar 28, 2020
3 minutes
In the early days of working from home to prevent spread of the COVID-19 disease, some Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers talking strategy on a video chat couldn’t help but get distracted by their team leader’s kitchen cabinets.
“There was absolutely nothing special about them except for the fact that they were in the private home of someone senior to us,” said researcher Kate Darling, who started gossiping about the cabinetry in an online back channel.
It was a minor and welcome disruption, an early sign
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