Just past the ping-pong table, in front of the kombucha tap and around the fully stocked snack bar, an executive bounds over to a couple of people who have just stepped foot in an office for the first time in more than a year.
"Are you shaking?" he asks. The visitors are confused. His outstretched hand solves the mystery.
Handshakes are back from the dead, against all odds. Hugging, too. And small talk, about the weather — is humidity good for curls? — or the snacks — is blue or yellow Gatorade better? — is thriving. This is office life in summer 2021, the sort-of-maybe-hopefully-but-probably-not-ending stage of the pandemic, at least here at the headquarters of Wpromote, a digital marketing company of about 500 employees, in the office district south of Los Angeles' airport.
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