Offices at Work: Uncommon Workspace Strategies that Add Value
and Improve Performance

by Franklin Becker

Offices at Work addresses the fundamental design issues that organizational leaders confront such as:

• How do we create a low-cost flexible environment that motivates employees and stimulates learning?

• Is it worth our spending the time, money, and effort to consolidate our disparate buildings into a new corporate campus?

• How else can we address status concerns besides giving people offices?

Using real world examples presented in a friendly and accessible style, this guide provides a broad range of insights and practical explanations for why different solutions work and make sense. It offers guidance to managers faced with the task of balancing choice and diversity with standardization and uniformity.

Offices at Work also discusses the relative benefits of an open versus closed office plan and shares the best ways to help employees adjust to a new workplace environment.

Contents

1. Principles of Workspace Design
   1. The Office as Invention.
   2. Knowledge Networks.
   3. Co-Location.
   4. The Right Size.
   5. Mobility.
   6. Flexibility.

2. Guidelines for Implementation
   7. Getting Started.
   8. Workspace Planning Tools.
   9. Measuring Performance.
   10. Managing Workspace Change.
   11. The Value of Uncommon Sense

Index

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