Trendy practices may be killing productivity

Dogs at work, office baristas and company trips can have adverse consequences

In recent years, we have bid adieu to the workplace of old. We look back fondly on TV shows and movies such as The Office, Office Space, and Glengarry Glen Ross as relics of our not-so-ancient business ancestors. You remember those old tropes: the sterile, stuffy office environment, the business suits, the cubicles, and the obligatory break room with a coffee machine that spit out watery Folgers.

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