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Every location has got worse for getting actual work done

Working from nowhere

An illustration of a man attempting to work on his laptop while seated on a bouncing space hopper.
Illustration: Paul Blow

Work would be so much better if you could get work done. It has always been hard to focus amid the staccato rhythms of meetings, the relentless accumulation of messages or the simple distraction of colleagues thundering past. But since the covid-19 pandemic, every single place of work has become less conducive to concentration.

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This article appeared in the Business section of the print edition under the headline “Working from nowhere”

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