Workplace Insight

MARCH 26, 2023

Following the launch of IBM’s PC in the early-1980s, we saw the rise of ‘digital offices’ in the 1990s, complete with internet, email and social media. Through it all, four themes can be detected which, together and in combination, form a timeless construct for analysing the office that we would be wise to heed today.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2010

In the last two months I started a consulting project (quite a big one, it will end in March next year) where I have to spend a few hours every day in an office, evaluating progress of a team, provisioning, negotiating deals, creating and implementing strategies and so on. The simplest comparison is with a workout.

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OCTOBER 24, 2010

For instance, if the stimuli is a big flame touching our hand, our reptilian brain will trigger a powerful and potentially life-saving response, usually in the form of a “run!” The Greatest Form of Suffering of All- Inaction Reply 14 dragos October 26, 2010 at 7:39 pm I liked the comparison. It does that in half of a second.

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JULY 17, 2010

Sometimes I even had the feeling that the source code on the editor was forming a twisted and evil smiley. You have to subclass Calendars, Time Zones and Time Components if you want to do some fine grained date comparisons. No more arguing or negotiating, I just started to code it. You kidding me? Complicated.

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