89. There’s Cake in the Breakroom!

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🗓️ 22 August 2012

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

If you think working from home offers too many distractions, just think about what happens at the office.

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0:00.0	From APM, American Public Media, and WNYC,
0:07.0	this is Freakonomics Radio on Marketplace.
0:11.0	Here's the host of Marketplace, Tess Biglin.
0:14.0	It is Freakonomics time.
0:18.0	Every couple of weeks we are talking with Stephen Dubner,
0:21.0	co-author of the books and the blog about the hidden side of everything.
0:25.0	Hello, Stephen.
0:26.0	Hey, Tess.
0:27.0	Is this a calm, peaceful, productive day at the office today?
0:31.0	It's a newsroom, Stephen.
0:33.0	No such thing, right?
0:34.0	Although we are in the dog days of summer.
0:36.0	Let me ask you this, Tess.
0:37.0	You ever fancised about just working from home instead,
0:39.0	maybe setting up a little radio studio in your living room,
0:42.0	and you could look at your scripts from your favourite easy chair?
0:45.0	No, with my cat on my lap.
0:47.0	Well, just between us, because nobody's listening.
0:50.0	Yeah, yeah.
0:51.0	Yeah, I think about it all the time,
0:52.0	but I don't think it's going to happen.
0:54.0	Well, bosses tend to have a kind of standard line of thinking here
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