--- --- # The Value of Rearranging Seating in Your Office by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Feb 21, 2018 5:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Feb 21, 2018 5:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**Learn the surprising value of rearranging seating in your office.**](https://hbr.org/2018/03/why-you-should-rotate-office-seating-assignments) By the _Harvard Business Review_ **2\.** [**Let workers decide who counts as ‘family’ for paid sick and family leave.**](http://www.aei.org/publication/let-workers-decide-who-counts-as-family-for-paid-sick-and-family-leave/) By Richard Reeves at the _American Enterprise Institute_ **3\.** [**Can we justify the carbon footprint of the Olympic games?**](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/world-striving-cut-carbon-emissions-do-olympics-make-sense-180968181/) By Warren Mabee in _Smithsonian_ **4\.** [**America needs to confront the relationship between gun violence and toxic masculinity.**](http://www.refinery29.com/2018/02/191050/florida-parkland-school-shooting-toxic-masculinity) By Ashley Alese Edwards in Refinery 29 **5\.** [**A form of patient capitalism is helping keep American manufacturing jobs around.**](https://www.racked.com/2018/2/20/17029148/american-giant-manufacturing-supply-chain) By Meredith Haggerty in _Racked_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ Five Best: The Value of Rearranging Seating in Your Office ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5168285/the-value-of-rearranging-seating-in-your-office/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5168285/the-value-of-rearranging-seating-in-your-office/"},"headline":"The Value of Rearranging Seating in Your Office","datePublished":"2018-02-21T17:00:54.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:04.697Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/5168285/the-value-of-rearranging-seating-in-your-office/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Innovation","olympics","Gun Violence","Manufacturing","productivity","paid leave"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/five-best-ideas/","name":"Five Best Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5168285/the-value-of-rearranging-seating-in-your-office/","name":"The Value of Rearranging Seating in Your Office"}}]}] ```