Concurrents – Environmental Psychology: Changing Era
The number of people in the workforce who remember when people as low in the corporate hierarchy as middle managers, and sometimes lower, had their own offices with walls to the ceiling and a door is dwindling. The furnishings and locations of those workspaces, now fading from memory, varied in quality, of course, and that was inevitable given human nature. Humans are concerned about the relative rank of those they encounter. This interest in status seems to have been useful when we were a young species, struggling for survival. People who had earned status, somehow, had done something that was useful to the group, whether that was excelling at hunting or gathering or killing an enemy. Since we evolve slowly as a species, humans still spend a lot of time trying to assess relative rank, and as one status marker disappears, another appears. Sometimes the ways we designate status, such …
Log in to Continue Reading
