Not that long ago, the home office used to be an afterthought: a spare bedroom with a desk, maybe, or a nook tucked in near the kitchen, where a couple times a month someone might sit with a laptop ...

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Senior metals columnist who previously covered industrial metals markets for Metals Week and was EMEA commodities editor at Knight-Ridder (subsequently Bridge). Started up Metals Insider in 2003 ...