For the past 20 years, cities across France have been setting up a Bureau des Temps, or a Time Bureau. This office essentially organizes usage according to the needs of urban residents and responds to the evolution of lifestyles. With the covid-19 pandemic, one of their new objectives is to respond to the widespread increase of working from home, reorganizing the city and its services according to this way of working. Their mysterious-sounding name certainly spurs curiosity, but France’s Bureaux des Temps, or Time Bureaus, are not secret organizations. They are offices working on time-based po…