The Irish Times continues to read the runes on hybrid working, concluding there's a continuing office-oriented shift: "It seems all but certain that if it does take a decade for the new norm to emerge, it will involve a lot more people making the daily commute in 2035," while the Indo has an interesting piece about the transposition, into Irish law, of the EU Pay Transparency directive.

Meanwhile, Fórsa and other health unions are in the WRC today, and the Irish Times reports that ICTU "spurned" two requests to endorse Catherine Connolly’s presidential bid, "setting itself apart from a campaign that united several parties of the left," as Michael D hosts his final tea party at the Aras. 

Elsewhere, 'masculine energy' nut and oligarchical nerd Mark Zuckerberg's Meta is cutting about 600 jobs from the company’s artificial intelligence unit. That'll save a few bucks when the bubble bursts.

Your Zen this morning is delivered as a bundle. The first is Ella McSweeney's article about how this year is proving to be a bumper autumn for nuts. The abundance of acorns and hazelnuts is due the process by which trees co-ordinate their efforts across hundreds of miles on what are known as ‘mast years.’

Your bank-holiday-bonus Zen is in honour of anyone who has had a bad week as a result of this typo, and here's a ripe example of delusions of grandeur.

Have a wonderful bank holiday weekend, here's a classic dance tune from Soft Cell to take you into it. RIP Dave Ball.

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