Concurrents – Environmental Psychology: Why Do We Have Offices?
Although multiple mysteries remain to be resolved, it seems that the workplace design world is establishing standards for the how, the when, and the why of onsite office use. Employees returning to corporate offices will see workplaces that look different from those they left in March, but generally, the most extreme and draconian measures foreseen early on as necessary to keep workers alive and safe have not needed to be implemented. The complex process of determining how the offices people will return to will be different from pre-COVID ones prompts the question “What should our offices do?” which is really just a different phrasing of “Why do we have offices?” We could have a long, metaphysical sort of discussion about why we have offices, or we could get right to the point. Let’s “speak” frankly. We have offices because they help us make money. Offices help us make money as …
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