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The Jetsons were an animated television family in the early 1960s.

Their space age home was cleaned by Rosie the Robot.

They talked to each other via video and smartwatches and read the news on flat screen televisions.

Drone-like flying pods delivered their children to school.

Voice-activated devices talked to them.

That was then.

This is now.

As a result of the coronavirus pandemic,

interior designers are busy planning the office of the future.

Vox has an example on their website of what office workers may come back to,

whenever that is. The doors into our

office building will open automatically so we don't have to touch them. We will tell the elevator

our floor so we don't have to touch its buttons. Elevator occupancy will be regulated to enable

social distancing. Our office will have dividers separating work spaces that are spaced further apart.

Breakrooms and kitchens will have fewer chairs and signs documenting the last time they were cleaned.

All of this reverses the trend following the last recession, in which companies were trying to do

more with less space. Many packed their employees into open office spaces,

a practice known as densification.

This will likely reverse now with more private spaces or personal offices for employees.

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