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7. The Open Office: Google and the Modern Penitentiary

verfasst von : Steven Chen

Erschienen in: The Design Imperative

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Firms, such as Google and IDEO, have turned to multipurpose, open office plans to encourage spontaneous employee interactions and creativity. At the outset, these environments seem like play spaces rife with distraction. How does anyone do work here? How do these environments foster discipline and productivity? This chapter challenges the idea that open offices are communal, Zen-like spaces. Rather, the chapter proposes that the reason why open offices work is because they resemble one of the most effective instruments of discipline—the modern-day penitentiary. A prison.

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Fußnoten
1
The quote is taken from Rapt Studio’s description of Google’s Irvine campus. The project details can be accessed here: http://​raptstudio.​com/​projects/​google-orange-county/​.
 
3
The quote was taken from an episode of TED Radio Hour titled “The power of design,” which originally aired on May 20, 2016.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
The Open Office: Google and the Modern Penitentiary
verfasst von
Steven Chen
Copyright-Jahr
2019
Verlag
Springer International Publishing
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78568-4_7

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