Cloud Computing Is Killing the Traditional Office
July 17, 2014
Grazed from eWeek. Author: Kevin Maney.
Two of the hippest places to work operate out of anti-offices. At Airbnb’s headquarters in San Francisco, every meeting area is decorated to look, in remarkable detail, like some Airbnb rental somewhere in the world. One conference room is modeled on the War Room in Dr. Strangelove.
In New York City, product innovation company Quirky’s offices in a former warehouse look like a cross between a hip nightclub and a giant preschool, outfitted with a conference table made from industrial fans and a giant map that shows where your colleagues are going on vacation. (All employees can take as much vacation as they want. Yay!) The sign on the front entrance says: “Deliveries & humans: 7th Floor. Suits: Go away.”..
Technology is giving the office an identity crisis. Even the word office now sounds like something your father went to. “We’re going through a 100-year shift in work,” says Adam Pisoni, co-founder of Yammer, which is now part of Microsoft. “There’s a real tension today between old and new.”…
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