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How Our Work Environment Affects Us

The Horizons Tracker

The perceived work efficiency, as reported by the workers, was compared between their current offices and an ‘ideal’ office characterized by maximal work efficiency, providing an estimate of the economic value conferred by the physical workspace.

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Look Who's Distracted Now

Harvard Business Review

But I can also attest that when I attended investor conferences in the 80s,and a group of participants (not including me) would rush off to strip clubs or a line of cocaine, they were almost exclusively men. The oxymoronic concept of being physically present but mentally absent on the job has been dubbed "presenteeism."