I've heard a lot over the years about flexible working but have never seen anything to match the Interpolis head office in Holland. 3,000 people work there but the space is hard to recognise as an office - it's a mad mixture of all different types of space. I've seen this kind of thing in groovy PR companies but not on this scale - there's over 5,000 square metres of this on the ground floor in 10 completely different 'club' areas - and in a 'boring' insurance company.
I'll post some more pictures of this and other offices I've seen over the past 2 days on a trip to look at new ways of working, new combinations of people, place, process, culture and technology. This was oragnised by Phillip Ross at Unwired - a leading thinking in this area. Here's a few tasters...one of their meeting rooms...
...an 'office'
a room that defies description, but is used for confidential meetings - the chairs have acoustic deadening on the inside and no sound escapes - you really cant hear what they are saying
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...and a more traditional conference room
the technology is pervasive but unobtrusive - more on this tomorrow, but in short - I'm inspired
