NYT on Dupont's office migration
Du Pont Shuts the Door on Its Private Offices
”It’s interesting, but the largest offices I had were earlier in my career,” he said. ”I think corporate America is becoming more egalitarian, on the one hand, and more cost-efficient on the other. Big offices with windows and doors is not a good use of company resources and it’s contrary to teamwork.”
TO help in the transition, Du Pont flew employees to the Grand Rapids, Mich., headquarters of Steelcase, which is outfitting Du Pont’s new workplace. At Steelcase, the workers learned a new language. They found out they were in the ”migration” process (moving from a private office to an ”individual screened workstation,” i.e. a desk). They learned about ”collaboration zones” (meeting rooms), ”docking stations” (a workbench) and ”free addresses” (space not assigned to a particular worker).
