Architects, designers and specifiers are no longer creating spaces to process work. In today's fast-paced, rapidly changing work environments, we create spaces for people to process work. This subtle yet significant difference represents a convergence of high technology and livability. Today's corporate executive works harder, smarter and, above all, differently than before. We work at the office, in conference rooms, at home, in the car, at airports, even walking from one meeting to another.
Executives are more hands-on, comfortable with technology and accessible to associates.
Nearly three million employees of U.S. companies telecommute, performing all or part of their work away from the traditional office. That number is expected to increase 20 percent every year. All of this has changed the traditional office environment as we once knew it. This fading line of demarcation between work and home has affected the way space, systems and furniture is designed. The challenge is not designing for the office or for the home but designing product for people in either environment.