Technology has made travel agents irrelevant, killed off record and video stores and rendered paper maps obsolete. Now it’s taking aim at your office.
When the General Services Administration moved headquarters workers into temporary offices in 2010 for a renovation project, it discovered that many were actually at their assigned desks and offices “under 40 percent of the time,” said Janet Pogue, lead designer for the GSA headquarters renovation, and principal in the Washington, D.C. office of Gensler, the architecture and design firm which headed the redesign.