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The WFH-WFO faultlines

The problem is that the notion that WFH equals less pay and perks has been hardwired into corporate thinking

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Kanika Datta
There’s an episode in that timeless American sitcom Friends in which Rachel, the ambitious fashion executive, decides to take up smoking. This momentous (and short-lived) life-choice is dictated by the habits of her boss and a colleague. Every day, both would head for the designated smoking area to hang out over a cigarette or two. Rachel, a committed non-smoker, finds herself excluded from this variant of the water cooler confab and decides to join the gals, as it were, by lighting up. Career-wise at least, it proves an eye-opening decision after she discovers during one of these sessions that her
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