By Tim Logan Globe Staff If you think working from home these last two months has been strange and unsettling, wait until you head back into the office. Temperature checks. Long lines to get on the elevator. Desks cleared of personal items. One-way corridors and closed meeting rooms. And lunch? Let’s not even go…
By Tim Logan GLOBE STAFF NOVEMBER 05, 2018 Boston’s red-hot office market has a bit of a problem. There’s a shortage of space to rent these days. Now, John Hancock is poised to profit from that shortage. The insurance giant is moving out of a roughly 500,000-square-foot office building at 601 Congress St.…
By Tim Logan GLOBE STAFF OCTOBER 29, 2018 SAINT-BENOIT-LABRE, Quebec — At one end of a football-field-size plant 40 miles north of the Maine border, workers lay out boards and cover them with plywood to make a floor. At the other end, an 800-square-foot apartment — bathroom fixtures and all — is swaddled…