Office Minimalist Mugs

"I guess it's okay for you to go home at the end of the day if you think that's fair to the stockholders."

The trend toward less formal offices began to gain steam.

"This new chair has the smoothest 360 swivel action on the market!"

"Yes sir, I'll admit I was sceptical about the whole 'mini-office' concept at first..."

"Hi Sean, welcome to my open space. Take a stand and let's talk."

"Our open-space office really stimulates information sharing when everyone removes their noise-cancelling headphones."

Bob tries to get off on a technicality.

"Well, yes, we did have to downsize operations a bit ... "

"Love your feng shui!"

'Well, why didn't you say you wanted the office to be functional?'

"All in favor of the old, uncomfortable chairs?"

'If the GPC built office blocks!'

'I don't need such a big office as this. My ego does.'

'My philosophy is that the bigger you are, the smaller the desk you need.'

"Hi Sean, welcome to my open space. Take a stand and let's talk."

Bad Office Planning

Paperless office.

'Oh, hi Tom... I'm just putting some personal touch to my office.'

Support, Encourage, Inspire.

'When I talked about, 'fundamental changes to chore practices to align ourselves with a changing business environment', I was referring to more than you moving your desk closer to the window.'

The Meeting Agenda: Start Simple

'What shall I do with that? Our office has been paperless for 5 years.'

"You'll be on the road most days, but when you do come in, this will be your docking station."

'Of course it's efficient - it's a flowchart.'

"They're slowly adapting to the open-office concept."

"We think this new layout will encourage people back to the office."

"Our open office promotes the interchange of ideas… except they're not about work."

"There was a lot of tension between his ergonomics and his feng shui."

COVID-19 office design

"All the chairs have been repossessed, so these are all standing desks now."

"Yeah! The new building is amazing! And guess what! I've got a corner office!"

"These open plan offices are a nightmare, it's like Piccadilly Circus in here!"

Unoccupied Space/Occupied Space/Swing Space/Flex Space