CHICAGO—Corporations have now been transforming their officespaces into collaborative working environments for years. But aworkplace strategy expert with JLL says that someusers have mistakenly adopted the increasingly popular strategy tosave money.
“The idea that you can make the workplace really small and jam alot of people in a space has caused crimes against productivity,”Bernice Boucher, head of JLL's workplace strategypractice in the Americas, tells GlobeSt.com. “The strategy of somehas been to ask, 'how many seats can we fit on this floor?'”
In yesterday's GlobeSt.com, Boucherwrote about 14 workplace trends shaping corporateculture. And several of her recommendations revolve around givingemployees a wide range of space options in order to accomplishtheir work.
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Brian J. Rogal
Brian J. Rogal is a Chicago-based freelance writer with years of experience as an investigative reporter and editor, most notably at The Chicago Reporter, where he concentrated on housing issues. He also has written extensively on alternative energy and the payments card industry for national trade publications.
