Work is not just about ‘output’ but shared endeavour. Let’s not turn our back on the office | Stefan Stern

The virtual workplace is no substitute for real people gathering and being creativeWhen the comic and film-maker Carl Reiner died at the end of June, there was another chance to reflect on the extraordinary team of writers who worked on Sid Caesar’s television shows in the 1950s. Neil Simon, Woody Allen, Mel Brooks and Larry Gelbart, as well as Reiner, all showed up daily to generate Laughter on the 23rd Floor, as Simon’s subsequent play, based on that time, would be called.This was no ordinary workplace. “It was very much like going to work every day of the week inside a Marx brothers movie,” Gelbart once said. Simon described the experience like this: “I went home to watch the shows and I laughed and laughed and my wife says, ‘That’s your joke, isn’t it?’ And I said, ‘I dunno’. We never knew. They all came so fast.” Continue reading... https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/19/home-is-where-the-heart-is-but-home-working-is-not-where-the-art-is #business #technology #working_from_home #uk_news