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At this point, Julie Boland is resigned to awkward silences. She’s a psychology and linguistics professor at the University of Michigan, and like many of us, she’s been spending a lot of time on Zoom ...

I was in the middle of a meeting last week talking with some great consultants from a firm about millennials. As we chatted about millennials’ perceptions and ways of interacting with the world, we ...