My work required deep concentration and I am positive that I would have been a far more efficient worker had I had a small office with a door that I could close when I needed to concentrate.

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In either case, the worker goes (the efficient outcome, if the worker is no longer productive).

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"He is a professionally very efficient person, a quiet worker, very responsible and hardworking, " says his boss there.

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