To paraphrase a popular TV commercial: What’s in your workplace? Is it a Mad Men-style bullpen with private offices rimming the exterior (whiskey neat, please)? Or is it an open and egalitarian environment without walls, where employees move easily and without paper from setting to setting, based on task?
Probably your answer is somewhere in between. But if your office design is caught in the 1960s or the decades after, you are behind the curve of best practices. In fact, “occupiers coming to the end of their lease term likely made decisions about their current work environment before the release of the first iPhone in 2007.”
So says “Designing the Workplace Experience,” the second installment in a three-part white-paper series entitled Better Business Performance Through Better Workplace Performance.