You’ve Read (Ad Nauseam) About ‘Hybrid’ but What Do Industry Design Experts Really Think?
In the spring of 1991, my husband “went hybrid” for a few interminable days. He lugged home from his Anaheim office a massive Dell computer workstation, heaved it onto our dining room table, plopped an equally massive monitor display on top, plugged in a maze of wires and a modem, cracked a beer – he needed a beer after all that – and finally got to work … while his wife, 4-year-old daughter and newborn son created quite the cacophony in the kitchen. I think he was ready to go back to his mauve-and-beige cubicle two seconds after that beer was gone, even if it meant sitting in Southern California traffic for an hour and a half. A lot of years, technological advancements, culture shifts and, oh yes, a global pandemic later, most U.S.-based office workers can, want and even demand to work at least part of the time from …