Technology and the Daytime Living Room

As companies work to create relevant workplaces in an era of mobile technology, the first questions asked should be, "Where are people going to work?" and "Where do they want to work?" The answers to these questions can give companies valuable insight into how the workplace will evolve in the coming years.

In the past, a person's ability to choose where they worked was limited. Today, the fixed technologies that restricted people to at-desk work have given way to mobile technologies. Many people are free to work when, where, and how they choose.

While work styles vary with personal preference and organization, one tendency is becoming clear. People often gravitate toward work locations that offer a high degree of emotional comfort and visual inspiration. Although places like the home kitchen or garden, a favorite coffee shop, or even a park bench near the local lake are not optimized for technology use, people are still drawn to them for work.

For a workplace to be relevant, people have to want to be there, even to the point of choosing being at work over being at home or near the lake. This concept of workplace desirability challenges the traditional view of "tech-savvy" environments, but recognizes that mobile technology has given people the freedom to seek out locations offering a higher degree of mental and emotional well-being.

One potential vision of how the workplace can productively deliver this state of wellbeing emerged before the eras of mobile or fixed technology. Over 60 years ago, Herman Miller Design Director George Nelson described his vision of the workplace as a "daytime living room." This notion of a workplace where people could choose to work from a diverse, social, relaxed and emotionally inspiring range of settings was a prescient vision never fully realized because the technology didn't exist to support it.

Technology futurist Paul Saffo once said, "Never mistake a clear view for a short distance."  Nelson had a clear vision of people working in a daytime living room, and the emergence of mobile technology is bringing this vision to life.

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