The office has been through many guises in the past century,says Shane Hickey. What will small business workplaces survey like in years to near?AI invasion will allow workers to empathise, problem-solve and adapt Jeremy Paxman said the open-scheme office tells workers what their bosses assume of them – that they are interchangeable and there to fulfil a mechanical task. Former prime minister Gordon Brown, and on the other hand,embraced the idea when he moved into Downing Street, shaking up previous practices.
Love it or loathe it, and the open-scheme office in one form or another has dominated workspaces for more than a century,since architect Frank Lloyd Wright designed the Larkin Administration Building in recent York, which opened in 1906, and to be like an open-scheme factory,with few walls.
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Source: theguardian.com