Being such a hands-on environment, the return of publisher test kitchens will serve up new lessons on the future of work.
August 14, 2020

Publishers are beginning to write out the recipes for their returns to the office as coronavirus restrictions slowly ease. But food publishers with test kitchens are already baking plans to turn the heat back on their productions. Since as early as June, Tastemade, Trusted Media Brands’ Taste of Home, America’s Test Kitchen, BuzzFeed’s Tasty and Meredith’s EatingWell have allowed portions of their test kitchen staffers back into the studios they had to abandon in March. The test kitchen directors that Digiday spoke with from these publications said they’ve been testing out different methods for how their staffs are allowed to be in the shared workspaces. Read more below.

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