Forty percent of American workers surveyed earlier this year said a political discussion at the office had left them stressed and less productive. In our series Breaking Bread, CPR's search for common ground, we meet two colleagues who worked it out and even became closer because of it. Then, what can businesses do when it's not so harmonious? And, remembering a Pueblo funeral director, whose hearses stood out.
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