One of my favorite business article bookmarks is Marker, a site that bills itself as “pop business for the intelligent reader.” Today on Marker the top story happened to be contributor Rob Walker’s Object of the Week, a column “exploring the objects a culture obsesses over and what that reveals about us.” This week’s object, of all things, is a toddler toy that Fisher-Price rolled out during the height of the pandemic, “My Home Office.” Complete with a fake laptop, headset, latte cup and pretend phone, the set even includes four fabric “apps” that attach to the laptop screen to “work” on different projects, Walker writes. The toy “lands somewhere between dark satire and a meme,” according to Walker. Yet, he says: “It turns out that, Twitter wits notwithstanding, a toy that seems like a set of grim training gear for a world without work/life boundaries does have its defenders.”