What Kind of Environment is Your Office?

What kind of office environment do you work in? Is it casual or is it strict? A recent experiment by two Dutch designers explored the different kinds of work environments and how they affect how we actually work. The range of styles began as modern-chill—a bed to work in, a pet rabbit, and nontraditional desks. It slowly evolved to feature less color, movement sensors that could detect when a worker took a coffee break and warned them of their crime via a virtual boss. The interesting result of the experiment is that workers were more productive in the stringent atmosphere as opposed to the “freedom phase.”

 

Read more about how the designers executed the shift and see photos of the office designs here: http://www.fastcoexist.com/3034147/is-your-open-office-is-actually-a-twisted-experiment-it-happened-to-these-workers.