The office is shrinking as tech creates workplace everywhere

Technology, the urge to go green, telecommuting and a generation of workers who grew up with smartphones in their hands and computers in their laps are revamping the work culture. Companies are knocking down walls, even dismantling cubicles to create a free-flowing layout that many believe gets the creative juices flowing and encourages collaboration.

Younger workers welcome the change, says Patricia Lancaster, head of The Lancaster Group real estate consulting company who teaches at New York University’s Schack Institute of Real Estate. “They don’t aspire to the big corner office,” she says. “They don’t even want it.”

 

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