Chapter 1A Place in Time – Office Typologies
Introduction
Traditional thinking states that, in the 1800s – as industrialisation gathered pace in the USA, UK and the rest of Europe – so too did the need to manage work activity and production. Clerks’ rooms became rows of desks with identically suited workers, whose administrative efficiency mirrored the manufacturing processes they oversaw.
This archetype for the commercial office endured for a century, until the advent of fast, efficient IT transformed people’s attitudes and approaches to work and led to the creation of new office typologies. The new ...
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