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Introduction
In the traditional office working environment, a staff member will have their own desk, chair, pedestal, PC and phone within their own space. Now, with the rise of more and more “new age” companies the traditional office working environment looks to be becoming a thing of the past. With more and more companies looking to improve the way that they conduct their operations, the 9-5 fully staffed office building seems to be slowly disappearing.
Traditional office space is giving way to community areas with empty chairs and desks as more staff are working from home, from their cars or anywhere that they can get access to the core essentials. But why is this happening now? Is it the rise of lease and rental rates that is making senior staff members look at the vast sums spent on real estate? Or is it the operating costs which are possibly mind bogglingly high? Or is it that now with the sophisticated levels of technology available, this just is an opportunity that can’t be passed up.
Of course not only organisations will reap the benefits of the current buzz for change. By being flexible with the space offered to staff and without the necessity of employees being in a building in a central location during normal working hours, companies may find that they can retain key personnel that may have been lost to a newborn baby, a move to another city or some other issue which may have meant they would have had to leave the organisation.
Working away from the office is nothing new but with the current high level specifications of laptops, modems, ISDN lines and telephone systems available, more companies are investigating the pros and cons of im ...