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Editorial: Corporate America needs to embrace a new office-worker model

A worker on a laptop in a Chicago Loop office on Sept. 14, 2021.

More than three years out from the pandemic’s onset, when America’s office workers suddenly had to do their jobs from their homes, a substantial majority of those employees have no desire to turn the clock back to 2019.

It’s clear in survey after survey. Bosses intent on herding their workforce back into the office have met consistently with resistance, both overt and covert. White-collar workers like the flexibility the work-from-home routine provides. They appreciate not sitting in traffic or

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