Despite exponential gains in worker productivity; despite the fact that technological leaps have automated entire industries and allowed many others to be conducted flawlessly from anywhere on Earth; despite the fact that pre-COVID open-plan offices were hugely detrimental to worker productivity and happiness, our workplaces have remained largely unchanged from 1820 to 2020-a physical space where workers can be observed and "managed" by senior company members and owners. Factory foremen became office managers, and while the world went through massive change, office life refused to transform in kind.

Until now.