The discourse around ‘flexible working’ has degenerated into a narrow debate over whether people come into the office on three days of the week or four. But this risks distracting us from a more interesting question: do people work better in parallel or in series?
When the pandemic hugely accelerated the adoption of video-calling, many people took to comparing the quality of meetings carried out...
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