Concurrents – Environmental Psychology: Choices Required
Ethan Bernstein and Ben Waber wrote an article for the November-December 2019 issue of the Harvard Business Review that is likely to receive lots of attention (“The Truth About Open Offices; available here: https://hbr.org/2019/11/the-truth-about-open-offices). People in the design world and in the client world will be reading and commenting on Bernstein and Waber’s work for some time to come, at least in part because they have been very frank about the positive and negative consequences of including more open spaces in workplaces. In their article, Bernstein and Waber are clear that the design of an organization’s workplace needs to align with among other things, the strategic objectives of a particular firm. In the rush to complete projects on time and on budget (which are indeed both important objectives), it is regularly the case that design solutions that are developed for one group are also suggested for another that may be …
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