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The empty office, what we lose when we work from home.

For decades, anthropologists have been telling us that it's often the informal,

unplanned interactions and rituals that matter most in any work environment.

So how much are we missing by giving them up?

By Gillian Tet. Red by Kelly Burke. Produced by Esther Apoco-Geni.

In the summer of 2020, Daniel Beunza, a valuable Spanish social scientist who taught at

Casbizness School in London, organized a stream of video calls with a dozen senior bankers in the

US and Europe. Beunza wanted to know how they had run a trading desk while working from home.

Did finance require flesh and blood humans?

Beunza had studied bank trading floors for two decades and had noticed a paradox.

Digital technologies had entered finance in the late 20th century,

pushing markets into cyberspace and enabling most financial work to be done outside the office.

In theory, for $1,400 a month you can have the Bloomberg machine at home.

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