Property News · February 18, 2012

Workplace design: how office space is becoming fun again


Taking Google’s lead, the office as a playground is back in fashion, but if ditching formality suits your business and means contented staff, what’s not to like? asks Tim SmedleyWalking up to the Manchester offices of Melbourne, an IT server hosting company, my expectations are not high. Dreary business park office buildings slouch amid a forest of To Let signs. Entering the foyer, only one level is occupied: the fourth floor. I take the lift. But as the door slides open, everything is not as it first appeared.Oversized flowers, like props from the Wizard of Oz, look out. Two staff are animatedly playing on an arcade machine. Passing through another door, I am in an indoor garden, a small path winding through grass upon which more “workers” are sat cross-legged, playing on an old Nintendo. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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