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t all started with a facilities meeting in February 2023. Executive leaders and the facilities team at organic foods producer Organic Valley were meeting to address facility constraint and workspace needs as the southwestern-Wisconsin-based cooperative moved toward calling employees back to the office.S
ome people in the meeting—including Kimberly Turnmire, VP of organizational development—began to wonder: What problem are we actually here to sol
ve for?“Nobody wants to be told to come back to the office three days a week arbitrarily,” she said, adding that the group began to tease out the possibility of pausing the facilities conversation and instead design a