19 Jan The Office of the Future
The Office of the Future, is it already here?
The concept of the office of the future also known as the “paperless office“ comes back from the 40´s yet the future workplace may not be entirely free of office spaces and desks, but a hybrid where companies have to support of both remote and virtual and non-virtual workplaces in the future. It is a rapidly growing trend, increasing in recent years but in the USA the total number of people who work solely from home is still only around three million.
According to a report published in Harvard Business Review, the key to unlock the greatest productivity isn’t necessarily in the hands of the individual employee. Authors Ben Waber, Jennifer Magnolfi, and Greg Lindsay posit that chance and face-to-face encounters are the way anyone working in the knowledge economy is going to improve performance.
So, office space, the authors write, may have evolved from corner offices to cubicles, to open concept to capitalize on collaborative conversations.Imagine your co-workers, gathered virtually around your desk, showing you how to get more and helping you improve your work Companies haven’t been able to back office design with proof that they’re pushing productivity.
Proposals come into new designs, how to be more effective, there should be entire portfolios of different workspaces……
Office Concept for TV Studios Design Jorge Rangel for Altin Interiors
Office Concept for TV Studios Design Jorge Rangel for Altin Interiors
As we also appreciate the home office trends can be combined with living room ideas, limits inbetween spaces and activities are no longer the same as we were used in the past years. The “office of the future” has also arrived to our homes. We all not might be working from home but we have to learn how to manage the flow of technology into our everyday life.
Home Office Casa Sitges Design Jorge Rangel Photo Zahring
Architects shall rethink the shape of the office of the future since productivity is not measured by the amount of time you sit behind a thing called a desk, it is what you do. It is all about your output, says Philip Tidd. The all-inclusive use of office space and breakdown of traditional barriers associated with mobile working will lead to a more “smart” working areas that will dictate the “death of the desk“.
The weirdest proposal yet for the Office of the Future is an art installation called “The End of the Sitting”, a glacier-like series of boulders and surfaces that would replace traditional office furniture. It is actually an experiment does not take into consideration practical aspects like electric outlets, meeting spaces, etc
The End of Sitting art installation by RAAAF Photo Jan Kempenaers
“Office of the Future” is also the name of an ongoing research project (based at the Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) which began among a consortium of universities sponsored by the National Science Foundation.
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