Some of the harshest lockdown measures imposed anywhere in the course of the entire COVID-19 pandemic have led office workers in Shanghai to take the extraordinary step of sleeping in their offices in order to avert disruptions to their companies’ workflow. Some staff will be working in rotating shifts. Personnel of brokers, exchanges, and asset managers in the financial district of Luziazui stocked their offices with sleeping bags and provisions for overnight stays in anticipation of one of two planned phases of a massive lockdown affecting the 26 million residents of Shanghai, Reuters reported on March 29. On March 28, Shanghai authorities started implementing a city-wide lockdown in two phases, each stage applying to areas of the city on respective sides of the Huangpu River that divides the city. A reported 20,000 people work at 285 office towers in Lujiazui finance district on the east side of the river. The …