Omegaverse, but the economy isn’t good enough to support a non-worker class, so everyone has to multitask during heat cycles. 9:30 AM Zoom meetings with mandatory facecams just got even MORE awkward.
...they started pushing remote work a lot earlier and a lot harder than we did, because people are a lot more productive (relatively, anyway) when they can't smell their coworkers' pheromones.
(...alternatively, they accidentally defeated a respiratory plague because it's standard practice to wear pheromone-blocking respiratory protection when you're trying to be functional during heat, and it turns out the filters block viruses as a side effect.)
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Date: 2021-09-09 02:23 pm (UTC)(...alternatively, they accidentally defeated a respiratory plague because it's standard practice to wear pheromone-blocking respiratory protection when you're trying to be functional during heat, and it turns out the filters block viruses as a side effect.)