Shrinking Spaces: Can Creative Design Take the Sting Out of Smaller Workspaces?

Overview: Article explains about the early ’90s — back when the economy was tight and companies felt the squeeze of widespread downsizing? Maximizing office space became a bottom-line priority, and workers in all sorts of organizations found that their already impersonal cubicles were shrinking. By the late 1990s, the economy was booming. The dot-coms and high-techs, and their Generation-X employees, were suddenly a major force in the marketplace, and they helped usher in lots of new ideas about what constitutes an effective workspace. It states that more effective melding of form and function is making workspace size less an issue and giving employers new options for keeping workers satisfied while minding the bottom line. It defines that whatever be the other impacts, the new approach to workspace design has had one obvious effect: Offices simply look different. “The one-size-fits-all model — the Dilbert syndrome — is not working anymore, and it’s being left behind. It provide few points that one should keep in mind wile designing the workplace: Focus on work processes, Building systems, Creating Acoustic Privacy etc. and define three basic principles of new office design.

(Is this item miscategorized? Does it need more tags? Let us know.)

Format: HTML | Date: Aug 2000 | Pages: 1