They can be noisy and distracting or depressingly quiet, and frictions with co-workers are guaranteed - so why do so many of us continue to work in open-plan offices?
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office design ideas by having a look at Autodesk's new office, designed by Morgan Lovell www.morganlovell.co.uk. Highlighting new ways of working, agile working, flexible working and mobile workforce. See shots of open plan, creative meeting spaces, movable walls, ad hoc meeting spaces, cafes, teleconferencing and open plan.
Why do we leave home, drive to work to work in an office?
"This is a short movie that explains the opportunity with ICT/IT for a low carbon office development. It is a movie about the difference between a 20th Century Office (the one most still have) and the 21st Century Office. But it is also a movie about the need to think beyond incremental changes."
"Workplace Strategy is the coordination of all aspects of the resources required to enable work wherever and whenever it takes place. I believe that the workplace of the future will be highly agile, mobile, and distributed across time and space."
"When you think about living dangerously - smoking, drinking and other risk taking behaviours may be the first things that come to mind. But if your days are anything like mine, one of your deadliest habits is one you indulge in most of your waking hours. It's sitting. Yes, sitting."