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Inside the Rise of a Hot New Industry: Social Distancing Consultants

Everyone’s recasting themselves as an expert in the new business of keeping people six feet apart

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7 min readMay 14, 2020

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In early March, Raymond Haldeman, a restaurant designer from Philadelphia, got a call from a client. The nine-foot submarine he’d designed as a centerpiece for their new 200-seater…

Zara Stone

Written by Zara Stone

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Tech+Culture f/lance journo. www.zarastone.net Bylines: OneZero, Marker, Atlantic, Forbes, etc. Author: The Future of Science Is Female https://bit.ly/stm202

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