These one-liners caught my eye about the return to the post-pandemic office setting, provided by WSJ’s Chris Mims’ reporting. How many might apply to your apartment company’s headquarters? Don’t say you haven’t been warned.

Another meeting?? … #>&*%^!
Pre-pandemic, people hated meetings in person. Then they hated Zoom calls during lockdown. Meetings between people who are both in person and remote represent a third kind of drag.

When Speaking Means More
If you have a meeting and there are five remote workers dialing in and as many who are present, it means a two-class system, where what’s said in the room matters more.

That’s Not My Stuff
When checking into a flexible workspace in the morning, employees might not realize that the space wasn’t just filled by different workers the day before, but by people from a totally different company. This will be called “work as a service,” which means they only pay for the desks and offices they use on a given day.

Reserving the right to reserve the right
Disputes over who gets what part of the office on what day will have to be resolved, and leaders will have to make sure employees don’t game the system—by, for example, reserving office space then not using it.

About those QR codes
A 30-year-old technology, the lowly QR code is suddenly everywhere, and seeing broad adoption in the wake of the pandemic.

My EV is a scooter.
Health and safety and all: Wait until you see how many employees begin commuting on a shared electric scooter.