As an ongoing feature, staff members at the Des Moines Public Library will recommend a business-related book to add to your reading list. Find this and more books like it at any of the Des Moines Public Library’s six locations and online at dmpl.org. And find information on how to get a FREE library card and all its benefits at dmpl.org/get-carded.

Des Moines Public Library business book pick: “The Nowhere Office: Reinventing Work and the Workplace of the Future” by Julia Hobsbawm.

Why you should read it: The COVID-19 pandemic and resulting shutdowns changed the workplace forever. And there’s no going back. In this book, named one of the Financial Times’ best business books of 2022, Julia Hobsbawm offers a strategic guide to navigating an important moment in modern workplace history, and gives practical advice to help employees and employers both adapt.