Technology and the New Spaces of Work
Office design has always evolved alongside technology. But perhaps the most observable way technology has changed the office is that work is no longer constrained to a desk. The design writers at Gizmodo, have paid close attention to this shift.
“For many employees, a laptop or smartphone and reliable Wi-Fi connection are all they need to be on the job,” said Geoff Manaugh, Gizmodo’s Editor-in-Chief. “This means that the physical place where work actually gets done can be completely variable. “It doesn’t necessarily take place in a company’s centralized HQ,” added Alissa Walker, Gizmodo’s Los Angeles-based urbanism editor.
Thanks to this level of accessibility, we are free to work at home, on the train, in the car, on a tablet, on a phone, on a laptop, late at night, early in the morning, and over lunch. And that’s why, more than ever, companies are thinking about how their office can still be an attractive environment—a space where people want to be, because that’s where they do their best work.
“Companies who want to attract top talent to work on-site are focusing on designing offices that offer far more than a desk to sit at,” said Jordan Kushins, a staff writer at Gizmodo. “Good design has become an integral part of company identities, and a way to leverage their standing with new hires and retain the ones they want to keep.”
The Gizmodo staffers went on to highlight the importance of making technology readily available, but not distracting.
We need ways to make our technology accessible, yet invisible,” said Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan, Gizmodo’s architecture editor. “Designers can help us feel like technology is available without confronting us with wires and buttons and screens. A well-designed office or living room can now be outfitted with plenty of gadgets without feeling like you’ve stepped onto the floor of Mission Control.”
“Technology hasn’t just changed how a company approaches office design—it’s forced an evolution in the entire concept of what an office actually is or can be.”
– Geoff Manaugh
Technology has made it possible for employees to connect instantly with video conferencing and telepresence applications. It’s made it possible to store important work files in the Cloud, freeing up the need for on-site servers. And it’s enabled new innovations that make it possible for a desk to go from a sitting to a standing position in mere seconds. Yet, the most advanced technology in the world is still no replacement for the actual person who applies it in the most fitting way for a space and the employees who use it.
“Companies that commit to good design in the office are making a statement that they care about their employees and want to encourage them to do their best work,” Geoff concluded. “Whether they live up to that goal is far more complex, but establishing that structure from the outset is a solid start.”
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