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Future Office

by Nicola Gillen
July 2019
Intermediate to advanced
176 pages
6h 56m
English
RIBA Publishing
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Foreword

Whether we’ll learn to regret this in the future, the way we think about work today is still interwoven with ideas of places. It is not to say that we can’t recognise that work has become a thing we do rather than simply a place we go to, but we still draw such energy from going to a workplace that it becomes what we think about first. Even mindful of rising trends of remote working, our jobs remain cognitively entwined with our workplaces.

Working life has seen immense change in the last decade – the arrival of email on smartphones has by some accounts seen the average working day increase by two hours (from seven and a half hours a day to nine and a half hours a day).1 Half of all people who check emails out of work hours are showing ...

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ISBN: 9781000726664