Our weekly round up of workplace news from around the web.

- In the era of freelance jobs, eLearning and technology trends, Modern Restaurant Management reports that opportunistic restaurant owners and managers are seeing that their eatery’s downtime can be a profit center.
- On Office shares some of the biggest challenges that future workplaces pose for architects.
- How can supergraphics be used to brighten up public spaces such as offices, hospital wards, school halls, and community centers? Design Week explores.
- Privacy is important to younger generations of workers. Chicago Tribune reports that designers are drawing inspiration from a surprising place: the phone booth, an obsolete space most members of Gen Z have probably never entered.
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