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The pandemic brought new meaning to the word "flexibility," especially as it applies to work environments. For some, the lockdowns were a refreshing opportunity to reevaluate what systems were (or weren't) working. But for most--who were left scrambling to implement new technologies and virtually transform their business systems overnight--it was a more significant hurdle to overcome.

Their plan: Write and publish a how-to guide to toxic workplaces, and smuggle it to sympathetic workers behind enemy lines who hoped to sabotage the Axis from within. Not everyone could carry a gun or blow up train tracks and military installations, the thinking went, but they could make their workplaces so inhospitable and inefficient that they might slow down the Nazi war machine.