Why the Remote-Work Debate Stays So Heated
The conversation often foregrounds large-scale issues such as productivity and company culture, but the question of where an employee works is intensely personal.
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The physical space in which a person works, or hopes to work, intersects with their most personal choices. Today we’re checking in on the remote-work debate and why it remains so heated.
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In the summer of 2021, I started going back to the office. It was not the allure of watercooler chatter or the promise of juiced-up productivity that pulled me in. At the time, I just really wanted to sit in the AC. It was June; it was hot. Access to a desk in a freezing-cold Midtown tower—a far
