Today I thought it might be interesting to reach out my Twitter Followers and other's I find interesting on the Twitters'phere to find out what's been a challenge to them in workplace design in 2011?
So I did just that.
It's just a kernal of an idea but I thought I'd try to strike up a conversation to those I respect and follow. I tried SurveyMonkey earlier in the year but I thought this time it might be way more fun to try Twitter. Already folks are starting to respond back.
@NickSloggett, a senior visual designer at Photobucket tweeted back what did I mean...Workplace furniture or Design Culture? I replied "As in workplace layout and furniture selection influencing for better or worse a work community's culture, effectiveness and morale."
In other words, in the workplaces you frequent, either your primary workplace, other offices you visit often which may have been renovated or completed recently, what was a big design challenged faced in the process. An example might be a super short time frame, or we were forced to move out of closed private offices into open collaborative workstations or vice versa, or we downsized and had to radically reshape our space or hopefully, we had to hire due to recent growth and we were running out of room....Or we wanted to create a sustainable, eco friendly workspace but that was challenging our budget...
Other examples could be resistance from the work community to change from older style less collaborative spaces to more open spaces? Another could be finding better ways to more effectively integrate technology into your meeting spaces, workstations and exec offices.
Anyway, you tell me what's happening. I'm very curious about the challenges you're facing. Maybe we can crowd source this in a way.
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