‘We’ve gotten this glimpse into this world of work—this future of work—that is better for us. Work place designers could you please adjust?”
In the era of the great resignation, remote work, and “quiet quitting,” the professional try-hard may dead, but you still need to return to the office.
The ‘office’ has gone through many different configurations over the last century. Throughout it all, from the typing pools of the 1940s, to Facebook’s cavernous HQ, the trend of open-plan offices persists. It never shows quite the same face: sometimes it’s a crammed, musty line of ancient desks, and sometimes it’s a hipster-friendly corporate playground overgrown by succulents.
With the tools available to us now, we can make buildings that capture that co-working structure. Spaces can be designed to be much more flexible. When a company structure requires co-working environments, we can create an interconnected series of spaces, instead of one big bullpen. This works on a human level, because we're operating in the smaller groups in which we naturally feel at ease.