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What is the Future of Office Spaces? (weforum.org)
An anonymous reader shares a World Economic Forum report: A lot of us spend long stretches in the office, but outdated design could be damaging our wellbeing and mental health. What's more, it's killing our productivity. One study found that office workers spend more time sitting than pensioners, which increases the risk of cardiovascular disease, type II diabetes and even cancer.
That's why forward-looking designers are finding ways to build spaces that heal rather than hurt us. Going beyond the already ubiquitous standing desks and social "breakout sofas," the office of the future is healthy, harmonious and happy. Here's how it's beginning to take shape.
That's why forward-looking designers are finding ways to build spaces that heal rather than hurt us. Going beyond the already ubiquitous standing desks and social "breakout sofas," the office of the future is healthy, harmonious and happy. Here's how it's beginning to take shape.
A regular office with a window and a door that closes, like I've had for decades since Apple II Pascal was a thing.
The hipsters can have an office that is some type of olympic event.
I'll see your senator, and I'll raise you two judges.
Let's see...
In The Beginning, there were open offices. These were bad. The workers were all lumped in an open space, the managers ensconced away in offices.
Then came the Cubicle, which promised some modicum of privacy and noise isolation. Didn't work all that well.
Now we're back to Open, and once again the workers are finding nothing's worse than Open, so... ....back to Cubicles we go. I, for one, will take the Cube over the open office, fashionista, trendsetters and influencers be damned.
Whatever "New, Improved" scam is coming, I hope it meets a skeptical mind.
Tell ya what. Just let me work from home. Please.
The "Civilized World" jumped the shark ca. 1973.
Yep, get rid of the office completely, let everyone work from home....no driving, wake up and walk across the hall to your computer and work.
Less distractions from overly chatty co-workers.
No more #MeToo suits as that no one will be together for passes to be made, and no troublesome office romances.
Cheaper for the company too, no needing to rent/build large office complexes with all the $$$ maintenance on those ongoing....
Yep, work from home the BEST office there is!!
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
Rather than move then to the cloud....move offices into everyone's' HOME!!
Be careful what you wish for. If your job can be done from your home, it can also be done from the home of someone in Mumbai.
So I see they already stopped buying chairs.
Be careful what you wish for. If your job can be done from your home, it can also be done from the home of someone in Mumbai.
Without spending more than half of the conversation waiting for the six-second lag between here and there? And when you do hear them you have to go "I'm sorry, can you say again?"
Without having to go over everything Mumbai did with a fine-tooth comb and having to redo 3/4ths of it?
Some things are best kept local.
Yet, they are not.
Working in an open office space is hell on Earth. Add HR walking the halls Tok, Tok, Toking their heels on the polished concrete floors and everyone's fucking dog in the office BARKing for no reason at the most random time completely killing your train of thought, just as you got it into the mode again.
Then here comes HR with stupid drinking games to play a couple hours before everyone is going to be driving home for their weekend.
Sorry, I rant.
Lets fix all this new progressive BS that's been shoved down our throat and do some real science based healing spaces.
~ People that think they are better than anyone else for any reason are the cause of all the strife in the world.
I came to the conclusion years ago that open plan offices aren't about work; it's gotta be some kinda sociological experiment to see how far one can push people into the depth of unreasonable before they figure out it's just an experiment.
Requiem for the American Dream