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'Inside Meta’s Push to Solve the Noisy Office', WSJ, February 16, 2023: Coming to the campuses of Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. is a contraption that can block sound, shield workers fro…
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Ending 2019
This blog achieved multiple minor but personally enjoyable milestones in 2019: * It was read by people in 143 counties, the highest in a single year since 2008 (when I started blogging) * It was th…
'Work from home' is about culture, not economics
Working from home (WFH) is not for everyone or for every company. It works mostly when individual employees of an organisation don't need to work together often, or are embedded in workflows where…
Money for science
Spending money on science has been tied to evaluating the value of spin-offs, assessing the link between technological advancement and GDP, and dissecting the metrics of productivity, but the debate w…