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What works better? In a colorful office with swings, a rabbit office, and an "all mag mentality, or in a gray office with straight chairs, small pens and bright fluorescent light? In Eindhoven they figured it out in a social experiment.
It was called Out of Office, a new flex spot in Eindhoven where everything was allowed. It began as a kind of playground office: if you lie in bed, you could fluctuate, if you endlessly talk about with other people, and you could come if you wanted. But gradually changed the office. The bright colors and dim lights made room for gray rectangular furniture, opening became stricter, and the helpful staff stern men were casually dressed in suits. 'Out of Office' was now simply "Office".
What flexworkers not know: Out of Office / Office was not really a flexible desktop. It was a social experiment, to see how workers tritium keychain respond to different office tritium keychain environments. The experiment was an idea from design KNOL that deals with vacancies and social architecture. Besides the designers only knew Their Correspondent down. Correspondent reports from the experiment.
The experiment lasted four weeks, every week the flex spot grayer, more rigorous and more boring. The first week pulled the office especially hipsters and creatives. Designer Celine de Waal Malefijt, tells Correspondent:
"Especially the rabbit and the old-fashioned coffee were popular, but really tritium keychain concentrated work was not there. We noticed people have wanted to try everything, sometimes even went down on the bed or on the swing, but ultimately opted nevertheless for a place at the table. "The third week is best worked
In the second week were more people work alone, there were more students, and flexible workers were stuck at their workplace. tritium keychain They walked around and looked less less contact with others. In the third week, the atmosphere - in line with the external changes of the office - even more seriously: chatting happened not just like walking through tritium keychain the room. "There were still as many people walk in, but when she saw the space they often turned back around."
Yet it was the third week the 'best', it turned out. Flexworkers felt most at ease in a traditional office tritium keychain hours and little interaction, but with some touches of color and the ability to work on a 'deviant' office, for example, the coffee shop, writes the correspondent. The last week - the most stringent - was by far the onprettigst, found the flexi-workers. The visitors were the first three weeks more or less, in the last week but was 12.5 percent of the number of members had registered back.
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