Concurrents – Environmental Psychology: Working Elsewhere

People work in a variety of different places, doing many different things. We can learn a lot by reviewing some of the more unusual locations where people achieve great and important and even ordinary objectives. Most of us spend most of our days focused on the design and management of workplaces for relatively traditional office workers – who may be accountants or ad executives or financiers or somebody else who in “the old days” probably would have worked in a standard issue office building. Now those “old-time” office workers are as – or in some cases are more –likely to be working at home or in coworking spaces or toiling away in a place that was nearly unimaginable a few decades ago. Even before knowledge work was officially named, there were people doing it in places that aren’t at all (really) like offices. Surgeons do a lot of thoughtful, often …