Office Spaces

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4.6 • 782 Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2018

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Is your office killing your productivity? Dan and Alison answer your questions with the help of Pete Bacevice, a workplace researcher at the global design firm HLW and the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. They talk through how to survive in an open office, deploy teams across multiple buildings, and ask for a better workspace.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Dear HBR from Harvard Business Review.
0:03.6	I'm Dan McGinn.
0:04.7	And I'm Alison Beard.
0:12.2	Work can be frustrating, but it doesn't have to be.
0:15.5	The truth is that we don't have to let the tension, conflicts, and misunderstandings get us down.
0:22.1	We can do something about them.
0:25.7	That's where Dear HBR comes in.
0:27.7	We take your questions about workplace dilemmas, and with the help of experts and insights
0:32.9	from academic research, we help you move forward.
0:41.4	Today we're talking about office spaces with Pete Bacewe.
0:46.1	He's the director of research at the global architecture and design firm HLW.
0:50.8	He's also a research associate at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business.
0:51.8	Pete, welcome.
0:52.9	Thank you for having me.
0:56.9	Pete, so many people see problems in their offices. Is it that these problems are really hard to solve or that companies just don't care and
1:02.9	don't want to solve them? Or employees expect too much. Well, workplace is a fixed asset and you only
1:09.3	have so many opportunities to make it right. So when you're
1:12.8	making a decision to invest in a workplace design, you're often left with that for 10 years. You know,
1:21.0	it's not like you can make decisions around hiring and bringing people in or reshuffling teams.
1:26.6	Workplace is a fixed asset.
1:28.9	And is there a movement toward structures, layouts that are less fixed so they can be more
1:34.2	flexible?
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