Concurrents – Environmental Psychology: Television Workplaces

by Sally Augustin, Ph.D. | October 30th, 2017

Digg recently shared the floor plans of offices/workplaces from fictional television programs, drawn up by Bizdaq (http://digg.com/2017/tv-business-floor-plans). Looking at these floor plans is a lot of fun. Almost all of us enjoy a little television, at least from time to time, and perusing the floor plans from shows like The Office or Mad Men is a way to combine a guilty pleasure with something that seems more worthwhile: considering the design options others have chosen. Reviewing these floor plans, and thinking about on-camera offices, can definitely payoff professionally. The office sets used by television shows generate our culture’s common language for discussing workplaces. Conversations regularly refer to the design of these spaces and one set of television offices can be explained to people who haven’t seen a particular show with comparisons to other sets. The same goes for offices being designed in real life – references to on-camera offices can …