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FUTURE OFFICE: Changing the way we work


Technology, the environment, and the collapsing of hierarchies and silos have all resulted in radical and dramatic changes to how and where we work. For small businesses, adaptation is easy. For larger businesses, the process requires significant investment in ideas and execution. Barry Jenkins reports.


// Open atrium becomes a ‘permeable space’ with the refectory being given a more public setting


12 // JULY/AUGUST 2011


Hierarchies were defined, and so repetitive were the processes that workers were as replaceable as the objects they made.


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efore the Industrial Revolution, most people worked from home. They were autonomous, collaborative, and tended to specialise in a particular artisanal skill. Then along came the age of industry, demanding ranks of unskilled or semi-skilled workers to work in factories.


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