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February 4, 2021 Microsoft's new building in Isreal features a gorgeous lunch room, flexible  conferences rooms, music rooms and yoga studios//Image courtesy of Microsoft.  "Why does a person actually want to come into an office? Why do they need an office at all?" These are the questions that Vered Gindi, lead architect of Microsoft’s new Herzliya campus in Israel, set out to answer four years ago when she started to design it. Her questions proved timely. When the technology giant commissioned its new 46,000-square-meter state-of-the-art facility, it scarcely could have imagined the e...

“Why does a person actually want to come into an office? Why do they need an office at all?,” are some questions the new Israel campus’ architect tried to answer.

Stories By Thomas Kohnstamm It goes without saying that the pandemic has upended work life in 2020. But rather than seeing this period of compulsory remote work as a one-off byproduct of COVID-19, it can be understood as an inflection point in a long-coming technology-driven reckoning on the nature of office work. Will employees be looking for more ways to connect in person after the pandemic? How about in a decade or 20 years, for that matter? It might seem an odd moment to celebrate the opening of Microsoft’s new state-of-the-art 46,000 square meter camp...