Today, in our third and final piece on workplace privacy, we will tackle the issue of personal matters at the office.

The need for privacy in a collaborative space differs from that required in a focus space. On the one hand, we are looking at individual privacy; on the other, we are looking at group privacy. Nevertheless, each has a valid privacy requirement. This article follows my recent post Can Open Offices...

In my previous posting, Focus Spaces, I discussed that, in the absence of private offices or dedicated workstations, staff members who frequently work from locations outside the office still require part-time accommodations to focus intensely and individually on their primary job assignments....

In my previous post about space reduction, Technology, Mobility, Flexibility, and Beyond, I discussed the relationship between new technologies and mobile work practices and how this relationship is presently affecting today’s office space. In particular, I focused on the trend toward increasingly...

In 1970, Alvin Toffler published the best-seller Future Shock. He cautioned us that not only would change come quickly in the foreseeable future, but the rate of change would begin to accelerate as technology took a greater foothold in our societies. Nowhere has this proven more correct than in the...