What is a good office?

2004-07-27T00:00:00

Truly awful offices may be a thing of the past, but successes like Lloyd's are still rare.

The short answer is nobody knows. Anyway, the new adjective is ‘productive’. According to office design guru Frank Duffy of DEGW, whom we have to thank for terms like ‘the hive’ (offices humming with activity) and ‘the cell’ (where you think as you work), the literature on what makes a ...

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