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Office design is changing with this next generation. No one has offices now, it’s all coworking space. Many times it’s even just one big bullpen table and employees have a locker to hold their personal items. Lots of couches/chairs and only separate space is for private calls. I’m not sure big floor plans are as vital as they used to be.
beautyfromashes wrote: ↑Thu Dec 13, 2018 5:06 pm Office design is changing with this next generation. No one has offices now, it’s all coworking space. Many times it’s even just one big bullpen table and employees have a locker to hold their personal items. Lots of couches/chairs and only separate space is for private calls. I’m not sure big floor plans are as vital as they used to be.
The focus today is more on column location and creating larger unobstructed areas. The older downtown office buildings struggle because their floorplates are generally litered with columns.beautyfromashes wrote: ↑Thu Dec 13, 2018 5:06 pmOffice design is changing with this next generation. No one has offices now, it’s all coworking space. Many times it’s even just one big bullpen table and employees have a locker to hold their personal items. Lots of couches/chairs and only separate space is for private calls. I’m not sure big floor plans are as vital as they used to be.
Yes, it does get more expensive to build higher.kcjak wrote: ↑Thu Dec 13, 2018 2:33 pm With there being a need for new office space downtown, wonder why Cordish never ventured into a mixed use tower, especially given the incentives they were (previously) getting to help with the parking garage. Nine or ten stories for a garage with some of the spaces shared between office and residents, ten stories of office and 25 stories for residential. Does the extra height make it financially prohibitive to insert office space that would provide some nice revenue?
Don't count on it as a long-term trend. I've seen several articles recently saying the open office plans are being found to not be productive and are actually very distracting for employees. I've worked in both. I was more productive when I had my own space where I could close my door.beautyfromashes wrote: ↑Thu Dec 13, 2018 5:06 pmOffice design is changing with this next generation. No one has offices now, it’s all coworking space. Many times it’s even just one big bullpen table and employees have a locker to hold their personal items. Lots of couches/chairs and only separate space is for private calls. I’m not sure big floor plans are as vital as they used to be.