Office shoes will make your nine-to-five exponentially better

Essentials Week spotlights unexpected items that make our daily lives just a little bit better.

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Office life isn’t always the most pleasant. There’s the coffee you inevitably spill while walking up the stairs, the lunch that disappears from the fridge, the temperature that’s always either “Arctic tundra” or “unadulterated hellfire.” But there is one way to exercise some control over your office experience: Get yourself a pair of office shoes.

These, very plainly, are shoes that you keep in the office. They rarely, if ever, leave. In fact, they should not do so unless it’s an emergency. My office shoes are a pair of silver flats with a weird and useless top zipper, and they live peacefully and permanently underneath my desk. They don’t come out often, but when they do, I’m thrilled they’re there. Read more…

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