Office design key to success as layout gets the job done.(Brief Article)

Australasian Business Intelligence, May, 2005 by Hanley, Mike

May 02, 2005 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX)

Those thinking about redesigning their workplaces should look at their goals and how they want staff to interact to achieve them. So suggests Franklin Becker, the director of the International Workspace Studies Program at Cornell University in the US, a program that was set up in 1989 with the backing of Toyota, IBM, Deutsche Bank and Hewlett-Packard. Becker says that when Paul O'Neill became CEO of Alcoa in 1987, he implemented an open-plan executive office, because he was concerned that the interactions between executives were too formal and too rare.

Publication Date: 3 May 2005

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