The new workplace? Central and eastern Europe may be closer than most

WARSAW (Reuters) - When Mario Pereira's Polish colleague, sitting not far from him in a Warsaw office, sent him an email rather than walking over to speak, the Portuguese was shocked. Coming from a culture where he says there is much more face-to-face contact between workers, Pereira found it "awkward". In Portugal "it is somehow important to see the person," he said.Yet the workplace of the future is likely to be more Polish than Portuguese.Research suggests the fact that central and eastern..