Concurrents – Environmental Psychology: Home at Work
Recently, there has been a lot of useful discussion of the workplace “home bases” people make for themselves and the psychological value of those nests. In his “p.s.” column at the back of the May issue of Interior Design, Murray Moss asks, “Doesn’t everyone, consciously or not, sanctioned or not, attempt to turn his work environment into a ‘home office,’ whether or not the office is actually in a home? An office needs to be serviceable to its occupant’s trade, certainly, but I believe that for most of us more is required. An office is not only the stage on which we act out our professional lives but also the place where we act out our personal ambitions, where we bare our more aggressive, competitive sides, where we earn our livelihoods and live out the most number of days. It is, by any account, extremely personal space [italics in original].” …
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