Knowledge work from home will flourish if we listen to brain science

As I was reading the excellent New Yorker magazine article Has the Pandemic Transformed the Office Forever? that traces the evolution of office space over the past several decades, it occurred to me that permanent work-from-home knowledge workers may gain an ancillary benefit beyond escaping cube farms or open space office designs. I’ve written previously about best-selling author Scott Halford’s book Activate Your Brain: How Understanding Your Brain Can Improve Your Work — and Your Life in which he summarizes research from neuroscience…