♪ police officers, soldiers, doctors, journalists, supermarket shelf stockers. these folks and many others went to work throughout the pandemic because they had to. but many white collar workers traded in commutes and cubicles for at-home setups, meetings became virtual, e-mails replaced conversations and coffee breaks, and the lines between work and leisure blurred. some workers will return to the office just after labor day, but many companies are delaying those plans because of the delta variant. so just what will work life look like, and what should it look like? joanne lipman has been thinking about just that. she wrote a great piece about it for "time." she is the former editor-in-chief of "usa today," and she joins me now.