At Orgatec 2016
From October 25th to 29th at Orgatec in Cologne, Germany, 665 companies from 40 countries presented their newest products and best interpretations of how to respond to the current trends in workplace design. The event organizers were expecting about 50,000 people to attend the show, and judging from the crowds on Thursday (my last day and the show’s third day of five), I’d say 50,000 was easily within reach. The conventional wisdom as to why Orgatec is important for North Americans to attend has always been something like, “We go to Orgatec to see the trends in Europe because we know we’ll be seeing those things here in a few years.” As with much conventional wisdom, it no longer applies. There have been and still are significant cultural differences between the way we work on this side of the Atlantic and that side. But at this Orgatec, there was …
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