“It just seems kind of nutty,” Peter Cappelli tells Fortune , on a Zoom call, as he and his co-author, Ranya Nehmeh , discuss their new, aptly titled book, “ In Praise of the Office .” The last five years have been quite a journey from fully remote work to an uneasy hybrid truce to a battle by many big companies to bring workers back five days a week, to wherever we are now. “People were starting to see this just as a kind of Marxist [thing], they were never saying that, but that’s the way they were thinking about it, right? Class battle, capital versus labor stuff, you know?”

Cappelli insists he and Nehmeh, both college professors and management scholars with expertise in human resources, were clear-eyed about what they’d find when they began researching their new book. Cappelli

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