Try this as an experiment: smile at someone as you pass them on the street or walking around the office.

试着做下面这个试验：在街上或办公室对与你擦肩而过的人微笑。

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I continued this experiment for the rest of the week and ended up getting about 25 hours of work done with only 30 hours total spent in my office, for an efficiency ratio of over 80%.

我在一周接下来的几天里继续这个实验，于是这周在办公室度过的30个小时当中，我完成了25小时的工作，效率比超过80%。

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In fact the quit rate among home-office workers during the experiment was about one-half of what it was for those making the commute.

事实上，实验期间家庭办公的雇员退出的比率是那些乘车上下班人员的二分之一。

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The mayor's office wouldn't offer a comment, but DHS Commissioner Seth Diamond says my experiment illustrates the city's point: His department needs the ability to screen out folks who have other options.

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After the experiment, nearly half of the employees changed their minds and returned to the office and two-thirds of the employees who wanted to work from home changed their minds.

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In one experiment subjects were asked to judge scenarios in which the only difference was whether the employee was at his office desk or at home.

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