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Trials of a shorter working week have moved from novelty to structured experiment. The results are encouraging in places and complicated in others, and the details matter more than the headline.
Raising prices is uncomfortable, but absorbing every cost increase can quietly erode a business. Owners describe the methods they use to adjust prices while keeping customers on side.
Hybrid schedules have changed how much space companies need and how they want to rent it. Landlords and tenants are rewriting the rules of the traditional office lease.
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