{"id":402,"date":"2009-02-17T10:41:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-17T01:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.workvitamins.com\/?p=402"},"modified":"2009-02-17T10:41:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-17T01:41:00","slug":"revolution-at-work-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/?p=402","title":{"rendered":"Revolution at work (part 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"

What is a revolution? According to the Oxford Dictionary it means either “a forcible overthrow of a government or social order, in favour of a new system” \u00c2\u00a0<\/strong>or “a dramatic and far-reaching change”.<\/p>\n

Let us return to Gibson’s Steelcase book, there are 5 principles that should be taken into consideration in designing a 21st Century workplace (the 6 C’s):<\/p>\n

Cost Efficiency: economic use of space, less emphasis on status and hierarchy,<\/p>\n

Collaboration: the office should promote teamwork, exchange ideas,\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

Communication and Concentration: the workplace should have a right balance between interaction and privacy,\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

Complexity: as the complexity of work increases, the office should step away from standardization and offer multifunctional workstations to suit different tasks and activities,<\/p>\n

Change: by having a flexible work environment the office can adapt quickly to changes in the organization and challenges,<\/p>\n

Connectivity: provide the latest\u00c2\u00a0communications and\u00c2\u00a0information technology.<\/p>\n

It is clear that these are the keys to creating a 21st century workplace. But will it create a revolution at work? A forceable overthrow of an order in favour of a new system? Some of the companies in Gibson’s examples such as Zero Knowledge Systems<\/a> have\u00c2\u00a0either gone bust\u00c2\u00a0or in the case of Netscape has been broken up<\/a>. Does this mean that all these ideas did not work? Or does it mean that some of the more traditional companies, succeeded despite or regardless of \u00c2\u00a0their\u00c2\u00a0workplace design?<\/p>\n

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What is a revolution? According to the Oxford Dictionary it means either “a forcible overthrow of a government or social order, in favour of a new system” \u00c2\u00a0or “a dramatic and far-reaching change”. Let us return to Gibson’s Steelcase book, there are 5 principles that should be taken into consideration in designing a 21st Century […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-definitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}