The pre-pandemic office is as obsolete as Dunder Mifflin

I haven’t been in an office since the pandemic began in March 2020. But most evenings over the past few months, I have sat down to watch half an hour or so of office life, catching up on the various little disasters befalling Michael Scott and his team at the Dunder Mifflin office in Scranton, Pennsylvania. I am not alone in turning to The Office (the US version) during the pandemic: in 2020, Americans cumulatively...