{"id":442,"date":"2009-04-07T22:37:07","date_gmt":"2009-04-08T03:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/?p=442"},"modified":"2022-08-17T16:04:29","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T21:04:29","slug":"article-the-evolution-of-the-office-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/article-the-evolution-of-the-office-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Article: The Evolution of the Office Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wired.com posted a pretty amazing roundup of office layouts throughout the ages, and it really shows an amazing progression in how we&#8217;ve come to view our communal workspaces.<\/p>\n<p>While the fundamentals of desk, chair, etc. are all there, it&#8217;s pretty cool to see how workflow, communication and technological integration have shaped the way we lay out our floor designs.<\/p>\n<p>Most of my office career has been spent in one variation or another of #4, the &#8220;Cube Farm&#8221;, which, according to Wired:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[is] the cubicle concept <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sea_of_cubicles\">taken to the extreme<\/a>. As the ranks of middle managers swelled, a new class of employee was created: too important for a mere desk but too junior for a window seat. Facilities managers accommodated them in the cheapest way possible, with modular walls. The sea of cubicles was born.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From a row of school-like desks to the current fractal hubs of modern-day networking layouts, this article has a tidbit for all of them. Definitely worth a look.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wired.com posted a pretty amazing roundup of office layouts throughout the ages, and it really shows an amazing progression in how we&#8217;ve come to view our communal workspaces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":443,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[85,29,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-customize-personalize","category-efficiency","category-resources"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7408,"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions\/7408"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}