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What is a slow elevator worth? According to this week's guest on Fika Friday at the Office 🎙️, quite a lot. If it arrives a little late, two colleagues end up in the lobby at the same time and go to lunch together. Design it to arrive in five seconds every time and that conversation never happens. Ram Puranam sat down with Corinne Murray, Author of WORK Then PLACE, Workplace Strategist & Futurist, for one of the most thought-provoking conversations of the season. The book, Work Then Place: Navigating Modern Work & Where it Happens, was co-written with Sara Escobar. A few things worth sitting with: — Socializing at work is often treated as the soft stuff. Corinne frames it as connective tissue.. or the thing that keeps organizations from accidentally running four versions of the same initiative. — The office earns its place as the environment for connection and serendipity. That case cannot be built on heads-down work people do fine at home. — On AI and the workplace of 2028: too many variables to predict, but the bigger conversation is about a blended workforce of humans, agents, and the socioeconomic shifts nobody inside a single organization can control. — And her one piece of advice? Think of change as a snowball. Start smaller than feels comfortable and build from there. 🎧 Full episode now live — link in the comments. #FikaFriday #FikaFridayAtTheOffice #FutureOfWork #HybridWork #WorkplaceDesign #WorkThenPlace #Podcast