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Tomorrow's Office: Creating Effective and Humane Interiors ISBN: 041924400X ISBN13: 9780419244004 Tomorrow's Office: Creating Effective and Humane Interiors By: Santa Raymond ; Roger Cunliffe : Foreword by Charles Hampden-Turner Publisher: Spon Press Format: Paperback Our Price: 33.99

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The Information Technology revolution is just as engulfing as the Industrial and Agricultural ones were in the past. Technology alters the way we work, where we work and what tools we need to work with. Work now happens any time, any place, and the revolution is both frightening and immensely exciting. To survive and succeed, businesses have to change the way they operate. A sociological revolution is also taking place. No longer can workers expect a job for life, so to counter this lack of security they ask to develop skills in a learning environment. In order to attract and keep high flyers (the 'gold collar workers') the office interior must underwrite this environment, and facilitate new work methods. Many organizations struggle to understand the implications of these changes, and to decide what their physical manifestation should be. Executives, whilst experts at producing a product, face project management of which they have no experience. Designers, experts in the physical environment, are often ignorant of the users' viewpoint. Tomorrow's Office explains the whole process of changing the office environment, to sponsors, providers and users alike. By showing the way change is happening and what its effects are likely to be, and the steps which are needed to create the effective workplace, the book asks the reader to question preconceptions.


Contents:

Foreword by Professor Charles Hampden-Turner

Introduction

Part I: Background

Context

Purposes and Concepts

Part II: Needs

Activities

Communications

Spaces

Ambiences

Part III: Technics

Process

Space Planning

Settings

Building Services

Furniture

Workplace Examples: VIA International, London
- Digital Equipment Company, Stockholm
- Defence Research Agency, Gosport
- British Airways Compass Centre, Heathrow
- Sol Cleaning Service, Helsinki
- Barr and Stroud, Glasgow
- Chiat/Day, New York
- Andersen Consulting, London
- The Automobile Association, Basingstoke
- Ernst & Young, Chicago
- Western Morning News, Plymouth
- PowerGen, Coventry

Appendices.


Brief Description:

Summarizes the changing context of office work and identifies the important issues that facilities managers must consider and resolve when handling major physical revisions to the workplace. Easy to read with case studies to illustrate the choices.

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