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The Future Workplace is “Not a Place Where You Have to go; It’s a Place Where You Want to go”

“It is true that the way organizations are resetting the relationship between people, technology, and space, the way that work fits within cities — all of these things are hugely in flux at the moment. In 2018, for once I actually believe the hyperbole around transformational change. The future of work shouldn’t be underestimated,” Jeremy Myerson, the Helen Hamlyn Chair of Design at the Royal College of Art. In an April 2018 article, which was part of the “tech x interiors” special section, guest-edited by the design firm Studio O+A, Myerson explores how technology is reshaping the workplace. He relates it to the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century when technologies like the telephone, the typewriter, the elevator, the adding machine, the electric lightbulb were revolutionizing the workplace. “These technologies didn’t all come along at once, but eventually they combined to create something completely new: the modern industrial office. And […]

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