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Everyone is talking about commute time and noise issues when it comes to going to the office.

No one has mentioned the smell. Some office reek of fear. In other you can smell stress. When it rains and it's hot, there a diffuse sense of sweat from all the people swetting inside the office.

Yet in other ones, usually the poorly built ones, there's a strong sense of plastic. The smell of the building is usually a constant background smell. Brick and mortar buildings smell much better than a glassy skyscraper with constant climatization.

Is no one bothered by that? Usually home, or the local park, smell much better. I prefer to work in public parks rather than office.for exactly that reason.



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