The ‘White Collar’ recession is pummeling office workers, but the end might be near

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• White collar work has gone through layoffs and a cloud of malaise—that might be set to change soon due to pent-up demand.

Whether it’s the dull watercooler talk, the shine of fluorescent lights, or the constant threat of layoffs, white-collar work is draped in such a dreary fog that Adam Scott has been called to act out the general malaise of the workforce in the popular Apple television series “Severance.” But there might be a light at the end of the tunnel of corporate drudgery.