It can be stressful and anxiety-inducing to be in the middle of a bunch of life changes at once - so much so that it can turn a time of change into a time of misery.
To fall in love with someone feels like such a personal and spontaneous process, it can sound strange - and even rather insulting - to suggest that something else (we might call it society or culture) may be playing a covert, critical role in governing our relationships in their most intimate moment
The history of the office illustrates not only how our work has changed but also how work's physical spaces respond to cultural, technological and social forces.
The telegraph, telephone, and dictating machine changed the concept of work and office design as telecommunications meant office could be separate from factories and warehouses and differentiate between white and blue-collar workers.
While these technologies made a distributed workforce possible, American offices became more centralised.
Online connectivity potentially ensures a move away from the office to working from home.