Computers and electronic communications are allowing many people to use their homes as offices. And offices will never disappear entirely. 【S1】______ Instead of the office of the future may become 【S2】______ more like home. American managers whom want to get more 【S3】______ out of their white-collar workforce will be in for a shock if we seek advice from Franc Becker, a 【S4】______ professor at Cornell University who studies the pattern of office work. His advice is: companies need to devote more office space to create places 【S5】______ like good-tended living rooms, where employees 【S6】______ can sit around in comfort and chat. Mr Becket is one of a group of academics and consultants tried to make companies more 【S7】______ productive by linking new office technology to better understanding of how employees work. 【S8】______ The forecasts of a decade ago—which computers 【S9】______ would increase office productivity, reduce white-collar payrolls and help the remaining staff to work better has proved much too hopeful. 【S10】______ 【S1】