Grama Ion - Madalin Grupa 8102 Indrumator: Mihai Frumuselu

1. Universitatea de Știin e Agronomiceț și Medicină Veterinară
București
Facultatea de Management, Inginerie În Agricultura și
Dezvoltare Rurală
Specializarea: Inginerie Economică în Agricultură
Coordonator: Frumușelu Mihai
Student: Grama Ion - Mădălin
Grupa: 8102

2. It was the 1960s and a growing class of North Americans were being dubbed
as “knowledge workers.” Probst, head of research for furniture manufacturer
Herman Miller, thought their desks stifled their thinking. Why should people
line up like clerks in a 19th-century counting house? Why clean their desks
each day? For that matter, why sit down?

3. In the past 40 years, the basic tension
in office design – between collaboration
and concentration – has not been
resolved. This challenge has never been
more important than today, when the
labour force is filled with perma-temps,
technology allows workers to be fully
mobile, and employers are pushing to
reduce their real estate footprints.
The new design consensus is a middle ground:
Every office, it turns out, needs space for
collaboration as well as some places to hide.
The technology sector is leading the way. Here,
innovation rules and companies are obsessed
about managing their internal culture. Denise
Cherry, director of design at O+A, a design
consulting firm in San Francisco, is among the
explorers.

4. At the same time, the Uber office includes “work caves,” upholstered niches
where employees can work on solitary projects without closing a door on
their colleagues. The goal is to balance space for individual tasks with room
for collaboration. “We know there are issues with the open office,” Cherry
continues. “Introverts can’t focus the way they need to.”

5. Steve Jobs, when he was chief executive of Pixar, pushed for its open
headquarters to include an atrium space where all employees would have to, at
some point, bump into each other. Fifteen years later, that model has been
widely adopted.

6. That tension is an old one. In his recent book Cubed: A Secret History of
the Workplace, cultural critic Nikil Saval traces two centuries’ worth of
office culture. His account makes clear that employers have always seen
the office as a machine to create hierarchy and control staff.

7. Open office spaces are separated from glassed-in, soundproof meeting
areas; for in-between zones, screens of aluminum louvers provide permeable
walls of visual and aural privacy. “Those louvers help to break up sight lines
and sound,” adds designer Jonathan Sabine. “You can create a hierarchy of
privacy in these spaces – when they need privacy, it has to be absolute, and
then there are desks. But there’s an in-between.”

8. Bibliografie: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/