Office Space

How you organise a working environment will affect the work that gets done in that environment

The Paperless Office

Why technology can't always replace paper...

"You just can't walk into an associate's office, slam your laptop on his desk and scroll down to the place where he made a mistake.  You need to have the brief printed out, you need to be able to tear those pages right in front of eyes, to scatter them wildly across the room, to fill the sheet with red lines and crosses, to crumple those papers up and toss them in the trash can, light them on fire and watch them burn.  Sure, we could probably afford to destroy a couple dozen of laptops a day just to make a point that we demand perfection, but paper just works so much better for that."   Anonymous Lawyer

Working Habits

Microsoft is experimenting with programming in pairs and blogging the experience:

Resources

Link Description
Why Office Design Matters Thomas H. Davenport, HBS Working Knowledge, 12th Sept 2005
Space - the first frontier Blog post about why office space matters
The Social Life of Information Book review - what happens when information goes social

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