Since Covid-19 surfaced in early 2020, Carlene Wilson has been focused on ways to adapt workplace spaces. She leads Minneapolis-based Atmosphere Commercial Interiors, which provides design consultations and sells office furniture. Great workplaces, she says, provide “equity, engagement, and ease.” She’s seeing a shift toward required office time. Culture “cannot happen when everyone is scattered in isolation,” she says. In addition to designated areas for focused work and privacy, she says, modern offices increasingly offer attractive spaces for socializing.

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