World's Shortest Business Brief: The Smoffice

By Linton Weeks

Published June 16, 2013 at 11:11 AM EDT

The World's Smallest Office is over. But will the Smoffice create jobs?

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Linton Weeks joined NPR in the summer of 2008, as its national correspondent for Digital News. He immediately hit the campaign trail, covering the Democratic and Republican National Conventions; fact-checking the debates; and exploring the candidates, the issues and the electorate.

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