No Desk, No Chair: Glaxo to Torture Staffers By Abolishing Personal Workspaces
By Jim Edwards | March 17, 2011
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has a slightly insane plan to install a free-form, open-space officeenvironment at its HQ in which no one has an assigned desk, chair or computer. Employees will just show up at the Research Triangle Park, N.C., building with their laptops and sit wherever they want.
This trendy new program seems guaranteed to make everyone crazy: Employees will be unable to personalize their workspaces with family photos or memorabilia. Instead, they will be given a storage locker in which they can keep files and keyboards. Welcome back to high school, GSK! About 40 GSK employees have already made the switch; 1,500 will follow shortly. Among the other changes:
* Offices will be divided into flexible “neighborhoods” in which groups of employees can work on projects together.
* Employees will receive etiquette classes to teach them to leave the space they used pristine for the next worker.
* GSK expects the system will increase collaboration, and lessen use of email and phones.
* Workstations will be adjustable for tall and short employees.
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