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Malcolm Gladwell tells workers to go back to the office, but not for him, because he has an "aversion to Midtown" [1]

['Mark Frauenfelder']

Date: 2022-08-10

Blink and Tipping Point Author Malcolm Gladwell is a funny fellow. Remember the time he explained to New York magazine about his trip on Jeffery Epstein's plane like this: "I don't remember much except being baffled as to who this Epstein guy was and why we were all on his plane?" Or when he upset Larry Nassar survivor parents by using interview quotes out of context? Or the time he claimed poets had the highest suicide rate and used this as the source? Or his cozy paid relationship with tobacco companies and other corporations he writes about?

Gladwell's latest funny thing? Scolding people who enjoy working from home and don't want to go back to the office to work. As you might guess, Gladwell has been working from home and from coffee shops for years and loves it.

Here's what he said about it when he was a guest on the Diary of a CEO podcast, according The Daily Mail:

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