Hall passes and dunce caps for adults

On Saturday, the first issue of the newly redesigned Bloomberg Businessweek hit the mailbox here at Pink, Inc, world headquarters. The magazine looks great — smart, simple, and forward-looking.

Alas, according to today's Times, the design of some of the magazine's work practices are almost the mirror opposite — rigid, retrograde, and bizarrely controlling. Here's one example:

"Employees swipe ID cards to enter and leave the building, and when an employee sends an internal e-mail message...